Daily Archive: Monday, September 5, 2016

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event in years past, authorities said on Monday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC — Rookies Nicholas Pooran and Rovman Powell are set to make their international debuts after being named in a West Indies Twenty20 15-man squad to face Pakistan later this month.

Britain’s Prince Harry will make an official visit to the Caribbean later this year on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen and Guyana is among the countries he will be visiting.

BEIRUT/HANGZHOU, China,  (Reuters) – Explosions in government-controlled areas of Syria and a province held by Kurdish militia killed dozens today, while the United States and Russia failed to make concrete progress towards a ceasefire.

A 48-year-old woman was found lying on her kitchen floor with stab wounds just before dusk yesterday and police have since taken a relative into custody.

With an appreciation for Guyana’s agriculture potential and a dream of one day establishing an expansive fruit orchard of his own, one overseas-based Guyanese has returned home to enhance the local agriculture industry with his own venture and is urging other Guyanese to do the same.

With the APNU+AFC government facing a barrage of questions over how he came to be single-sourced in a pharmacy bond deal, curiosity surrounds businessman Lawrence ‘Larry’ Singh.

Former Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Legal Affairs Ministry, Indira Anandjit said on Saturday that the non-renewal of her contract came as a shock particularly as a report by the Auditor General had exonerated her and she charged that a smokescreen was created by the Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams to have her removed.

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has blasted the APNU+AFC government for having what he said was a lazy economic policy where it is sitting back and waiting on money that it is hoping to get from oil in a couple of years.

Horrific family violence that left a Better Success, Essequibo Coast man dead and his sister charged with killing him has once again placed focus on the abuse of alcohol and its deadly consequences.

State television anchor, Natasha Smith was reportedly pulled from presenting the daily “NCN 6 O’ clock News” because of her pregnancy and the matter is being probed by the Guyana Press Association (GPA).

Isaac Caesar, the 15-year-old boy who was listed as critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital after the fatal Regent Street accident two Saturdays ago, has been transferred from the Intensive Care Unit to the ward after he regained consciousness.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) plans to revive and strengthen Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) and student councils across the country in order to foster a community alliance that it hopes will help to improve the quality of education offered, especially in the hinterland.

By Gaulbert Sutherland in Hawaii   More emphasis needs to be placed on often overlooked nature-based solutions such as conservation to protect against the challenges of climate change and ensure sustainable development, according to a top United Nations climate official.

The police are still hunting the men who gunned down Mark Anthony in North Ruimveldt on Thursday night.

A farmer at Black Bush Polder, Corentyne was recently on a local television programme where he expressed his disapproval of a `stop off’ near an inactive koker at the trench located at the entrance to Black Bush Polder.

Dean Hassan of Tesouro Resources last week sent a team to six  orphanages around Georgetown to assist them with preparations for their return to school today, a release from the company said.

Dear Editor, Rice farmers are once again tasked with the struggle to repel the ever advancing infestation of paddy bugs in their rice fields.

Lower Corentyne continued their unbeaten run after completing an impressive nine-wicket win over Georgetown when round two of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Jaguars Franchise League three-day tournament ended yesterday at Albion, Berbice.

The wanted man who was shot in New Amsterdam by the police is still in the Georgetown Public Hospital in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Dear Editor, We wish to respond to certain aspects of the letter from Mr Seepaul Narine, the General Secretary for the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) that was published in the Stabroek News of August 31, titled ‘The sugar industry can overcome its present challenges.’

“And the winner is Cleveland Forde” seems to be the recurring theme of the annual Massy Guyana 10km road race.

Guyana’s women team defeated Tanzania 4-0 in their third round match of the 42nd Chess Olympiad women’s team events in Baku, Azerbaijan yesterday.

Dear Editor, Once again a contract non-renewal takes the spotlight.  In this instance, it involves a permanent secretary at a central ministry. 

Guyana’s national men’s team yesterday defeated Barbados and St Lucia to qualify for the semi-finals of the 59th Senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships being held at the Pabellón de Tenis de Mesa del Parque del Este, Dominican Republic.

Dear Editor, Returning to Guyana and entering my brother’s yard, I saw an old lady, about 100 years old, squatting between a bucket and broom.

Dear Editor, The introduction of the two speedboats on the Berbice River after the officials of the Berbice Bridge refused to reduce the tolls for vehicles was a great relief to commuters.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Tenth seed Gael Monfils motored into the U.S.

Dear Editor, No government whose interest is in the people would be happy with a high unemployment rate.

Unbeaten sides Pepsi Hikers and Pizza Hut Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) were crowned Lucozade indoor hockey men and women champions when the event concluded Saturday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena and Venus Williams, the sisters with 29 grand slams and a stack of records between them, will try to maintain a collision course at the U.S.

Dear Editor, Guyana is experiencing a shortage of insulin, a vital hormone critically necessary for diabetic patients.  

Suriname basketball club De Arend (The Eagles) downed Pacesetters 64-47 when the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) International Series commenced Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Dear Editor, On January 15, 2016, the Kaieteur News published a letter from me about a missing heart machine.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard yesterday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor’s hopes of winning – or even running – for a fourth term in 2017.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Head coach, Stephen Hart, has lamented Trinidad and Tobago’s lack of ruthlessness, following their dramatic 2-2 draw with Guatemala in the CONCACAF fourth round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers here Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) One major Chinese company that has invested billions of dollars in Jamaica in the past decade, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), is publicly denying any knowledge of an ‘established practice’ to pay bribery to Jamaican government officials.

Dear Editor, I paid my National Insurance Scheme (NIS) dues for over 40 years and made close to 1,400 contributions.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to publicly vent my frustration with GTT and their lack of customer service.

(Reuters) – Australia’s stand-in skipper David Warner led by example, hitting a brilliant century in their five-wicket win against Sri Lanka to complete a 4-1 series victory yesterday.

`Emerge 5’: First Lady, Sandra Granger, on Saturday evening attended ‘Emerge 5’, an evening of performances by children, held at the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston.

MANILA,  (Reuters) – The body of 22-year-old pedicab driver Eric Sison lies in a coffin in a Manila slum with a chick pacing across his casket, placed there in keeping with a local tradition to symbolically peck at the conscience of his killers.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney yesterday criticized Donald Trump’s potential plan to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and said the U.S.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the “saint of the gutters” during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis yesterday, fast-tracked to canonisation just 19 years after her death.

By Samuel Braithwaite   Samuel Brathwaite is a lecturer in the Department of Economics, the University of the West Indies, Mona   Introduction In May of this year, I was asked by Prof.

When oil and gas revenue becomes available in the next five or six years there will be a long list of priorities to address including matters like public service wages currently facing the government.

Dear Editor, As I follow developments in Brazil and Venezuela I am led to wonder whether or not there is some bigger hand at work in our hemisphere to unseat governments that are perceived to be leftist regardless of whether or not they are democratically elected in free and fair elections.

There must be no compromise on integrity, no allowance for arrogance, no room for violation of mutual respect; there will be no sacrifice of our values on the altar of political expediency.

(Reuters) – Pakistan’s Sarfraz Ahmed and shared a fluent partnership of 163 to lead the tourists to a consolation four-wicket win over England in the fifth and final one-day international in Cardiff yesterday.

Brightening up pedestrian crossing: These two policemen from the Highway Patrol Base on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway were seen repainting the pedestrian crossing at Kuru-Kururu on Saturday.

Politikles

Photos by Oliceia Simon-Tinnie   This week we asked the man/woman in the street for their views on how the Mayor and City Council has performed since historic local government elections in March this year.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents voted yesterday in record numbers for a bitterly contested legislative election, with a push for independence among a disaffected younger generation of candidates and voters stoking tension with China’s government.