Daily Archive: Monday, October 3, 2016

Scenes from the Change of Command Parade between Brigadier Mark A Phillips and Brigadier George A Lewis at Camp Ayanganna on Monday, October 3, 2016.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Veteran West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo on Monday revealed that the West Indies Cricket Board’s decision to axe “trusted” head coach Phil Simmons on the day of the squad’s departure for Dubai, had left the Caribbean side demoralized for the ongoing limited overs tour against Pakistan.

LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew bore down on Haiti today where towns and villages braced for “catastrophic” floods and mudslides that forecasters fear will be triggered by 140 mile-per-hour (220 kph) winds and up to 3 feet of rain over its denuded hills.

Agriculture Minister Noel Holder today accepted a proposal to commence discussions for an all-weather road from #58/59 Villages to Canje Creek, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Masked men put a gun to reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s temple, left her tied up in the bathroom of her luxury residence in Paris and stole millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in the early hours of today, police and her publicist said.

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran and former Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday skewered the award of a school feeding juice contract to Surinamese company, Rudisa following a report in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek that mandatory tests were not done by the food and drug department.

A  Professional Guard Service (PGS)  guard was shot and two others grazed by bullets after the armoured vehicle they were in came under a hail of gunfire, shortly before midnight, at Demerara Bank’s Camp Street and South Road branch.

President David Granger says drug trafficking is a key progenitor of crime and he pledged to bring it to an end.

The Government has issued an order to acquire the east quarter of Lot 92 Middle and Carmichael streets under The Acquisition of Lands for Public Purposes Act.

Students of the University of Guyana will be taking to the picket line today in protest at the recently announced  5% increase in tuition fees.

An apology has been issued to parents of female students of Santa Rosa Secondary School, North West District who were stripped and searched last month for missing money.

While the Guyana Police Force says there is no increase in crime here, former President Donald Ramotar differs, saying that not only there is a rise but it is different from  the crimes of the past and is  as a direct result of high unemployment rates.

The Bartica Town Council is pleading with residents and business owners to pay their rates and taxes as the fledgling municipality is “cash-strapped.”

The International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) has completed 175 cardiac-related procedures during its sixth mission in Guyana, which came to an end on Saturday.

Police are monitoring at least 120 Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras set up in and on the outskirts of the city and their use has been successful in identifying and charging traffic violators, Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine disclosed on Friday.

Acting Crime Chief Hugh Jessemy says police are still investigating the Friday night shooting at Enmore, East Coast Demerara that left three persons injured.

The cane harvesters attached to Rose Hall estate who are currently on strike over a disagreement in relation to daily quotas had failed to meet “agreed standard requirements,” according to the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

Devon King, who was involved in an accident on the Friendship, East Bank Demerara public road which claimed the lives of two brothers Jonnel Armstrong, 28, and Phillip Armstrong, 27, remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

The young couple who were shot on Saturday night have been transferred to the wards at the GPHC where they are recovering.

Nineteen indigenous men and women from across Guyana were recognised on September 26 for their contributions to Guyana’s development at the Umana Yana.

Ten women entrepreneurs graduated on Wednesday evening from the Volunteer Youth Corps’ (VYC) business initiative, a component of the group’s Women Empowerment Programme.

Acting top cop David Ramnarine on Friday assured that the Monica Reece murder investigation is still very much alive and made it clear that he doesn’t know which police officer covered up the crime.

Two gold, two silver and a bronze medal were what Guyana’s five-member team bagged from the biggest Central American and Caribbean (CAC) bodybuilding competition in its 44-year history over the weekend in the Dominican Republic.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Darren Bravo and Marlon Samuels stroked half-centuries in an improved West Indies performance but the Caribbean side were still distinctly second best, slumping to a 59-run loss to Pakistan in the second One-Day International to concede the three-match series here yesterday.

71 students graduated from the Schools of Music, Dance, Fine Arts (ERBSA) and Theatre Arts and Drama at the third Convocation of the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA), which was held at the National Cultural Centre on September 27.

Dear Editor, As a feedback to the editorial `Speechless in Syria’ of October 1, 2016 I would like to share with you the Russian vision of the recent developments in Syria in the last interview by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to the BBC.

Tinnenben Animation Studio two Saturdays ago launched its ‘Nancy School Daze’ series, funded by IPED, at the Herdmanston Lodge.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Captain Jason Holder has welcomed the improvement shown by his batsmen but said West Indies were still searching for the “complete game” after going down by 59 runs in the second One-Day International here yesterday.

Privileged Clothing and Naked Skin Soaps emerged winner and runner-up respectively in the Scotiabank Vision Achiever LivePitch 2016 competition.

National Grade Six Assessment 2016 top performers from the East Coast of Demerara were last week  rewarded at Benjamin’s Bakery’s tenth Annual Bursary Ceremony.

The Formula 1600 series ended on a high note for Guyana’s Calvin Ming who placed second  in the final race of the season and afterwards the  young Ming said that the year 2016 was a learning experience for him.

Dear Editor, Blackouts continue to paralyse the entire Essequibo Coast, affecting production in the various sectors, especially the rice millers who are buying farmers’ paddy and milling it for local and overseas markets; their entire operation has to close down when blackouts strike suddenly.

A resident of St Ignatius, Rupununi in Region Nine contested as a councillor for the town of Bon Fim when Brazil held its Municipal Elections yesterday.

KOLKATA, (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma’s masterful 82 and a seventh-wicket stand of 103 runs with Wriddhiman Saha put India firmly in the driver’s seat against New Zealand in the second test yesterday after the hosts’ second innings had gotten off to a wobbly start.

Dear Editor, I want to highlight a long and probably the most prolonged issue to date that has plagued the people of Kwakwani, Ituni and Linden.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – A century from stand-in skipper Faf du Plessis lifted South Africa to a huge 142-run win over Australia and a 2-0 lead in the five-match one-day international series at The Wanderers yesterday.

Dear Editor, There is not much in the columns and letters written over the past months by Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran and others on facts and conclusions that does not invite a contradictory response, which has now become necessary for the public record.

Fresh from their victory over G Sqaure Cavaliers in a feature hardball T20 affair a Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association team will   oppose a Berbice Masters selection Saturday.

Dear Editor, I do not recall another issue that was pursued with greater vigour by APNU and the AFC while in opposition, more particularly the AFC, than the establishment of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).

Dear Editor, Reports are that the unemployment rate is 12.5%, as based on the 2012 census figures. 

Buxton United hammered rivals Victoria Kings 6-0 when the East Coast Demerara zone of the National Milling Company (Namilco) Thunderbolt Flour U17 tournament continued yesterday.

LES CAYES, Haiti/ KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Haiti and Jamaica urged residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights yesterday as bands of rain from Hurricane Matthew, the strongest storm to menace Caribbean nations since 2007, drenched the Jamaican capital.

Dear Editor, National Tree Day has slowly become an observance conducted in many countries.

Undefeated Pouderoyen clinched their fifth win of the Stag Beer sponsored West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) senior league, mauling Beavers 8-1 Saturday at the Den Amstel ground.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC Council-lors of Region 3 (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara) disrupted the Statutory Meeting of the Regional Democratic Council which was held on Wednesday September 28, 2016 by singing “We shall not be removed” and by tapping the desk loudly and dancing, “Faerber must go, Jaikarran will stay”.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian political parties implicated in the massive Petrobras corruption scandal, including that of President Michel Temer, suffered major setbacks in yesterday’s municipal elections that put right-leaning candidates ahead in key cities.

Led by an eight-goal blitz from emerging talent Jolade Trim, Kwakwani Strikers recorded the largest margin of victory in the National Association for Women’s Football (NAWF) Developmental League, swamping Kuru-Kururu Warriors 15-1 on Saturday.

ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – More than 50 people were killed in a stampede in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region that was triggered when police used teargas and shot in the air yesterday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival.

Dear Editor, There are few things one can say with certainty about cricket: One is that in playing that game, especially in batting, without confidence you are doomed to failure.

Corporate governance broadly refers to the mechanisms, relations, and processes by which an organisation is controlled and directed.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s decision to take a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return showed his business acumen and “genius” at figuring out how to minimize his tax bill, two of the Republican presidential candidate’s advisers said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Congratulations on the lovely picture highlighted on the front page of yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek which showcases the beauty and bounty of Guyana.

By The Caribbean Voice The Caribbean Voice is a New York based NGO that has been involved in social activism since its launch in 1998.

MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte apologised “profoundly and deeply” to the Jewish community yesterday, and said his references to the Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were to hit back at critics who had likened him to Adolf Hitler.

Dear Editor, In this 50th year ‒ Golden Jubilee ‒ of the Independence of our ‘Dear Land of Guyana’, the intention is to make a tangible contribution with the submission of a proposal, which, if implemented, will contribute tremendously towards regional and national development, but most importantly it will greatly advance the move towards that social cohesion which we crave.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombians narrowly rejected a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas in a referendum yesterday, plunging the nation into uncertainty and dashing President Juan Manuel Santos’ painstakingly negotiated plan to end the 52-year war.

During an interview with HGPTV Channel 67’s Nightly News in February this year, recently convicted drug trafficker Barry Dataram alleged that the Custom Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) was corrupt and he implicated a high-ranking CANU official in the drug trade, while claiming that the official would take as much as $10 million to allow cocaine to leave the country.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – A judge in El Salvador has reopened the case of a massacre allegedly carried out by soldiers in 1981 that is considered the worst atrocity committed during the country’s brutal civil war, a lawyer involved in the matter said on Saturday.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” topped a feeble crop of new releases to pick up first place at the weekend box office, opening to $28.5 million.

Dear Editor, Anna Correia in her SN letter of September 30 writes: “The late Kennedy might be a hero in his country but for this Guyanese woman he was an instigator of dictatorial oppression and ethnic cleavages [in Guyana]”.

Fees at the University of Guyana have been increased by five per cent.

Dear Editor, The Regional Democratic Council in Region 9 is dissatisfied with the recent awarding of a contract for the construction of a bridge over the Tabatinga creek, which links Lethem and Tabatinga.