Articles published on Thursday, September 22, 2016
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC — Favourites West Indies take on an unpredictable Pakistan in the opening Twenty20 International of their three-match series here Friday, hoping to make a bold statement and enhance their status as reigning World champions.
Following a visit by its officers, the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) said that passenger and cargo vessels can traverse the part of the Mazaruni River where a sunken dredge is located.
(Trinidad Guardian) The water supply throughout T&T is now under threat after 75 per cent of the Water and Sewerage Authority’s (WASA) water treatment plants were shut down last night.
While the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is seeking developers to fund new real estate projects it is to take back lands from errant developers such as the Baishanlin-owned Sunset Lakes for failing to meet contractual obligations.
The Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) is investigating allegations made against two of its Board members by Essequibo cable broadcaster, Kenwin Charles, Board Chairman Lennox Craig says.
A young couple of Cumberland Village, East Canje, Berbice was robbed of a total of $500,000 in cash, jewellery and items around 02:00 am yesterday.
An East Canje, Berbice, mother of four, who pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to traffic cocaine concealed in fake compartments of her suitcases, will be spending the next three years in prison.
Hosting the 17th Summit of the Heads of state and government of the Non-Aligned Movement last week, Venezuela got an earful on its territorial claim to Guyana which has seen increasingly tense relations between the two countries over the last 15 months.
Feasibility studies for aquaculture were conducted at the Wales Sugar Estate as part of its diversification plan but a source said the conditions were unsuitable causing GuySuCo to proceed with rice cultivation instead.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC — The West Indies Cricket Board said yesterday it planned to pump more than half-million United States dollars into the women’s game, in a move that will see an increase in player retainer contracts and fees starting next month.
The alleged bandit who was fleeing from the police on Tuesday afternoon during which a woman was accidentally shot was turned in at the Brickdam Station by his mother yesterday.
The schedule of three tests, three One Day Internationals (ODI) and three T20s is just enough to whet the appetite and not enough to make one feel as if one is being saturated with the monotony.
The mother of the baby who fell on the Georgetown Public Hospital’s (GPH) floor during delivery a month ago said that Neurosurgeon Dr Amarnauth Dukhi has told her that his fractured skull needs at least six weeks to heal.
Onika Luke, the 16-year-old student who was shot while working as a waitress at a Chinese restaurant, has been discharged from the hospital but is now faced with respiratory complications.
The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) has named its 28-member squad to represent the Golden Arrowhead at the Inter Guiana Games here next month.
A New Amsterdam businessman was yesterday robbed of his gold chain costing $700,000.
The Guyana Beach Football Association (GBFA) has reduced its training squad for the 2017 World Cup Qualifiers following trials staged at the Bayrock Beach Soccer Facility.
Dear Editor, Writing in the Nation newspaper of Barbados last Sunday, Fazeer Mohammed has used a very broad brush of misinformation in attempting to dilute the importance of having a forensic audit into the affairs of WICB.
According to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, there is no secrecy surrounding Guyana’s partnership with Norway on forests, climate change and the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP).
Dear Editor, I write to dispel a rumour going around Region 9 that the Annual Heritage Celebrations scheduled for September 22 to 24, at the St Ignatius Benab, have been cancelled.
Demerara Queens and Kwakwani Strikers secured thumping victories when the National Association for Women’s Football (NAWF) Developmental League continued on Sunday at the Wisburg Secondary School ground.
The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground home of a number of famous former West Indies cricketers is expected to be a hive of activity tomorrow night when the popular softball team Floodlights take on G-Square Cavaliers of Wakenaam in a feature hardball T20 cricket match.
Dear Editor, Since last year October I noticed that sand trucks are carrying out from Palmer Street, La Grange, West Bank Demerara 10-15 loads of dirt per day up to 10 pm at night, and no one knows who authorized this or who is receiving money for this activity and why.
An attempt by bandits to break into a Diamond, East Bank Demerara home, though unsuccessful, has traumatized a man and his wife who lamented the lack of action by the police.
Since the inception of the annual Court’s 10km event in 2011, Cleveland Forde has won the fixture four times.
Dear Editor, Re the city council notice on page 25 of Stabroek News, September 1 – let’s have a reality check.
The National Public Health Reference Laboratory is expected to have the capacity to conduct testing for the Zika virus and similar viruses before the end of the week, according to Minister of Public Health Dr.
A three-year bilateral rugby programme between the governments of Guyana and Argentina will be discussed when the Ambassador of Argentina to Guyana, Luis Martino hosts a press briefing today at the Embassy of Argentina.
The mother of 26-year-old Levan Chanderpaul of Lot 116 Number 68 Village who was found bound and with chop wounds about his body, at the backlands in the village in August is calling for justice.
Dear Editor, I am a resident who has been living in Bartica for over 25 years.
LONDON, CMC — Discarded two-time Twenty World Cup-winning captain, Darren Sammy, has been named to lead Cricket United XI against Surrey All Stars in a celebrity charity game at Kia Oval here today.
Guyana has been cleared for the issuing of the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ) and this has been hailed by Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine.
Dear Editor, It is good to have an apology from Pandit Deodatt Tillack, about the insensitive comments he made regarding our Amerindian people.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC — Two Pakistani players who campaigned in this year’s Caribbean Premier League are backing their side to upset West Indies in their three-match Twenty20 International series starting Friday.
Dear Editor, Did Guyana ever fully recover from the boycotting of the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games by former president LFS Burnham?
The National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) benefitted from the handing over of an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) worth $3M at Shulinab on Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan yesterday pledged more than $3 billion toward a plan to “cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children’s lifetime.”
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC — Opener Johnson Charles believes West Indies still have work to do in fine-tuning their preparation for the upcoming three-match Twenty20 International series against Pakistan here.
Dear Editor, Having read Mr Pat Dial’s column in the Sunday Chronicle (September 11) regarding the causes of accidents and recommendations, I was left breathless for a second or two.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., (Reuters) – One person was shot dead yesterday in a second night of unrest in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials said, as police in riot gear fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a demonstration against the fatal police shooting of a black man who officers said had refused their orders to drop a handgun.
The government of Guyana met yesterday with stakeholders to discuss the revision of the National Occupational Safety and Health (OS&H) Policy and to create an action plan for the OS&H Council, GINA said.
A 31-year-old woman will spend time in prison after she admitted to stealing $280,000 from a friend.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Michel Temer yesterday criticized a surprise move by Brazilian lawmakers, including some members of his party and even a cabinet minister, to wipe the slate clean on illegal donations they allegedly received.
Dear Editor, Here is a somewhat disturbing state of affairs as it relates to a trained teacher who has been assigned to a school in another region away from where he lives.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC — Pakistan are not assuming the absence of batting superstar Chris Gayle to mean West Indies will be a weakened unit for their three-match Twenty20 International series starting here Friday (Saturday in Dubai).
CARACAS/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA said yesterday it has awarded $3.2 billion in contracts to drill wells in the Orinoco Belt, although sources close to the matter said some foreign partners are uncomfortable with the rushed tender and structural problems that could hinder projects.
The High Commission of India in Georgetown on Tuesday donated 150 books of 124 titles with multiple copies on various subjects such as Philosophy, History, Information Technology, Climate Change, Religion, Politics, Science, etc.
A 33-year-old Jamaican claiming Guyanese parentage was yesterday granted bail after he was accused of overstaying his time.
Dear Editor, September 12, 2016 marked the second death anniversary of Elvin McDavid, the Founding Patron of the Burnham Foundation.
(Trinidad Express) Pregnant Shevana Laura Sookram was on Tuesday posting photographs and showing off her baby-bump to friends.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC — Pacer Marlon Richards has added a new weapon to his arsenal for the upcoming Professional Cricket League and is hoping to make big impression for Trinidad and Tobago Red Force when the season bowls off in November.
Every Christmas season my money-minded maternal grandmother would travel down to the city by taxi, wearing her traditional starched white embroidered cotton headdress, with a fat duck or two in tow and baskets of freshly picked produce from her organic riverside farm to sell to my hopelessly outwitted father.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s national election board said yesterday a referendum sought by the opposition to remove unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro could be held in early 2017 if enough signatures are gathered to request it.
The practice by government officials to make grandiose pronouncements on issues around the time of national or international observances of said issues has been so overdone that it has become expected.
President David Granger (left) was the first Head of State to be congratulated yesterday morning by United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a special “High-Level Event on Entry into Force of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change”.
