Daily Archive: Saturday, October 15, 2016

The Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix today said that a full probe will be launched of how fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his wife managed to obtain fake Guyana passports.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – After a brutal week for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton maintained a substantial projected advantage in the race to win the Electoral College and claim the U.S.

The police today said that fugitive drug convict Barry Dataram has been handed over to them by the Surinamese authorities.

Eon Caesar, the owner of Safeway Security has demanded an apology from Kaieteur News over a report in its edition today.

KIGALI, (Reuters) – Nearly 200 nations hammered out a legally binding deal to cut back on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a Rwandan minister announced to loud cheers on Saturday, in a major step against climate change.

Concerns raised by Auditor-General (AG) Deodat Sharma about the manner in which the administration of George-town spent a $300 million government subvention has led the Ministry of Communities to launch an audit into the city’s spending of these funds.

Noting that government can scrap the controversial Orders made to compulsorily acquire two plots of Carmichael Street land, Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday said all that has happened so far is that a legal process has been triggered.

Fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, were yesterday afternoon captured by law enforcement officials in Suriname and Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said he has requested that he be returned as quickly as possible to Guyana.

Bartica residents are enduring scheduled blackouts once again as one of the generators at the town’s power station has stopped working.

With the commissioning yesterday of an $83M sluice at Bagotville, West Bank Demerara, residents have been promised relief from flooding woes and have taken up the challenge of making farming vibrant again.

Calling for City Council to have a formal meeting with the Guyana Market Vendors Union, vendors from all around Georgetown armed themselves with placards and picketed in front of City Hall yesterday.

A City Constabulary raid in the area under the clock of the Stabroek Market yesterday resulted in a man being arrested after he was found with a quantity of narcotics.

The Auditor General’s Office has stated that the APNU+AFC government should not have used the “single source” method of procurement for the selection of consultants to conduct the 45 forensic audits it commissioned upon attaining office in 2015.

The Ministry of Public Health paid over $14 million on drugs and medical supplies for unidentified PPP/C government officials in February last year, according to the latest Auditor General’s report.

Based on a directive from Cabinet, the Board of Directors of the George-town Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has instructed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michael Khan to proceed on leave until the end of his contract in July, 2017.

The owners of the Gafoors Houston Complex only recently secured insurance coverage for the US$2M stocks that went up in flames on Monday and an investigator from the US has been hired to determine what transpired.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Opener Azhar Ali carved out a monumental maiden triple century on the second day of the first Test here yesterday, as Pakistan piled up their second highest Test score against West Indies, to leave the beleaguered Caribbean side in a scrap to save the historic day/night encounter.

Dear Editor, One could not help but read intently the Accountability Watch article titled ‘Salary increases, contracted employees and the COI report’ (SN Oct.

After a six-hour-long debate, the National Assembly on Thursday adopted the National Youth Policy, which the opposition criticised for failing to address the reality of young people in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Mr. Carvil Duncan is a member and the Chairman of the Public Service Commission. 

After much consultation with government, the Alex Bunbury Sports and Academics Academy (ABSAA) has been assigned a plot of land in the Ituni area for the construction of Guyana’s first modern multipurpose sport and educational facility.

Heeralall Sukdeo, the Guyanese man who has been charged in the United States with attempting to smuggle over 250 kilogrammes of cocaine in a shrimp shipment, was yesterday convicted in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Dear Editor, I am abroad and just heard of the passing of Malcolm ‘Lord Canary’ Corrica and thus felt I should pay a personal tribute to him.

The annual Trophy Stall golf tournament, a fixture on the Lusignan Golf Club’s annual calendar of events, takes place today at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Kemo Scott, who had been on the run from police, was yesterday brought before a city court to face a charge for the murder of a Port Kaituma dredge owner, just over a month after his father was also charged with the crime.

Trophy Stall has once again stepped up along with Pizza Hut and De Sinco Trading as three of the major sponsors lending their support to further promote the sport of powerlifting as Fitness Express collaborates with the GAPLF to host Barbell Wars slated for the Queen’s College Auditorium tomorrow.

Kevin Farrell, the driver of the minibus that crashed along the Herstelling Public Road on Tuesday, was yesterday charged with causing the death of his conductor, just one day after the man succumbed to his injuries.

Dear Editor, In the face of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Matthew on our sister country of Haiti, we call on the Government of Guyana to show its solidarity by mobilizing emergency relief supplies urgently.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter in the Thursday 13th October edition of the Stabroek News captioned ‘Lethem Mayor evicted two youths from council meeting’.

Through the auspices of the Alex Bunbury Sports and Academics Academy (ABSAA), rising local stars Jeremy Garett and Shemika Marcus are set to participate in trials at the world famous football club Sports Lisbon of Portugal next month.

The bullet-riddled body a Brazilian miner was found at Port Kaituma in the North West District on Thursday afternoon.

Always drawn to pageants and probably seeing herself in the beautiful women with the tiaras perched on their heads the recently crowned Miss Guyana Talented Teen has quickly accepted her role as a queen and vows to use her new role effectively.

Police yesterday pulled the dead body of a man out of a trench at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – Americans traveling to Cuba will be allowed to bring home more of the communist-ruled island’s coveted cigars and rum under new measures announced by the U.S.

Dear Editor, The various articles in some of the daily national newspapers which seem to have an angle of negativity to hamper my professional career are unsupported by any evidence or reference to any evidence of forgery or fraudulent acts.

(Reuters) – Batsman Suresh Raina has been ruled out of India’s first one-day international (ODI) against New Zealand in Dharamsala on Monday with viral fever, a week after being recalled into the squad for this month’s five-match series.

Hi Everyone,   The news of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s return to Guyana next week under a new franchise owner has a lot of people excited.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies Women produced a miserable batting effort to collapse to a heavy 112-run defeat to England Women in the third One-Day International of the five-match series at Sabina Park here yesterday.

LES CAYES, (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew tore up large tracts of food crops as well as mature coffee and cocoa plantations when it ravaged Haiti’s fertile south last week, with a U.N.

CHARLOTTE, N.C./LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday charged that the women accusing him of sexual misconduct fabricated their stories to damage his campaign after two more women came forward with allegations that he had groped them.

A senior citizen was left traumatised yesterday after two gun-toting bandits attacked her shortly after she left the Bourda Post Office.

Curl Fest, Guyana’s first ever Natural Hair Expo, was held on Sunday, October 9, 2016 in the Promenade Gardens.

Dear Editor, With reference to a letter published in your newspapers on 1 October, 2016 by Mr.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The family of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes walked out of an inquest into his death on Friday after a submission from the lawyer for Cricket Australia that the coroner should not rule on claims the batsman been subject to threatening language.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – South Africa’s anti-graft watchdog has deferred release of a report into allegations of political interference by wealthy friends of Jacob Zuma in a move critics of the president fear could lead to a watering down of its conclusions.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro yesterday signed off on Venezuela’s 2017 budget, drawing fire from the opposition-led National Assembly which accused the unpopular leftist leader of despotism for bypassing the legislature.

Ten years after it came into existence Merundoi is celebrating not only its anniversary but holding the coveted position of being the longest running radio serial in Guyana and the Caribbean twined with two of its members being invited to sit in on the last television debate between the US presidential hopefuls.

Dear Editor, A student writing CXC must do either the Third Paper or SBAs.in

An autopsy performed yesterday on the remains of farmer Infant Forrester, whose badly decomposed body was discovered on Wednesday at Craig Sea Dam, East Bank Demerara, was inconclusive.

Defending champions Chase Academy, on the back of a century from national U15 captain Sachin Singh, made a successful start to their 2016/17 title defence as the Guyana Cricket Board’s National secondary School Cricket League get underway yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti will hold the first round of its serially delayed presidential election on Nov.

Long before the Swedish Academy provoked the world’s literati by naming Bob Dylan as a Nobel laureate for literature, his “poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” had been noticed by several devotees.

Ten sponsors yesterday formally offered their support for the inaugural Coconut Festival, handing over cheques at simple ceremony, as the date for festival approaches.

She walks the streets pushing a trolley. The need for visibility—and with it, sales—propels her to leave the shelter where the vendors have been relocated.

(Reuters) – Spinner Imran Tahir has been fined 30 percent of his match fee for his heated exchange with Australia batsman David Warner, while South Africa were penalised for maintaining a slow over-rate in Wednesday’s fifth ODI against Australia in Cape Town.

Politikles

Dear Editor, Recent articles appearing in the Kaieteur News (August 28, October 8 and 9) suggest that the President of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Nigel Hinds, who is also Chairman of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), leveraged his positions to obtain sponsorship for the Guyana U15 Basketball Team from New GPC Inc.

Every now and then I get a pleasant surprise when it comes to local designers and creatives challenging the hypocrisies of society through their creative abilities.