Daily Archive: Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) experienced three shutdowns at approximately 12:03 hrs, 12:58 hrs and 16:04 hrs today due to a suspected fault on the 69kv transmission line linking the Kingston Power Station to the Sophia Substation (Dispatch Centre), the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said.

(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.8 quake struck off the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea’s Lesser Antilles archipelago today, the U.S.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC-West Indies spinner Devendra Bishoo has achieved a career-high ranking while middle order batsmen Darren Bravo has returned to the top 20 in the latest MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings, released on Tuesday.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission is working towards offering online lease applications and instant responses to questions and queries.

BAGHDAD/ERBIL,  (Reuters) – Iraqi and Kurdish forces closing in on Mosul said on Tuesday they had secured some 20 villages on the outskirts of the city in the first day of an operation to retake what is Islamic State’s last major stronghold in Iraq.

The heroic action of a Corentyne shopkeeper, who ran and grabbed on to a man as he was stabbing the mother of his four children, allowed her to escape, but was not enough to save her life as she subsequently succumbed.

Guyana and the United States yesterday signed an agreement for greater cooperation in tackling offshore tax evasion by allowing for reporting on the local holdings of US citizens to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

A 56-year-old businesswoman was yesterday morning found bound and gagged in her Mahaicony home following a suspected robbery and the police have since arrested a teenager for questioning in connection with the discovery.

A taxi driver is being questioned by the police after a businessman whom he chauffeuring was robbed of millions on the Georgetown seawall yesterday.

Two men pulled off a daring daylight robbery early yesterday morning at the Woodlands Hospital and escaped with in excess of $3 million.

The twin-engine Cessna plane found at the Yupukari Airstrip, in Region Nine, originated from Colombia and residents had found it almost a month before an official report was made to authorities last month, according to the preliminary findings of Brigadier (Ret’d) Edward Collins.

The Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) will be closed from December 1 until mid-2018 to facilitate US$6.7 million (approximately $1.4 billion) in repairs to its interior and immediate surroundings.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday took issue with criticisms by the Auditor General of government’s spending last year, while stressing that the public debt payments are mostly up to date and defending the administration’s resort to the Contingencies Fund.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Darren Bravo’s attritional eighth Test hundred carried West Indies close but the Caribbean side lost the plot in the final hour, to collapse to a 56-run defeat to Pakistan, late on a tense final day of the historic day/night Test yesterday.

Following a lengthy selection process, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has selected their respective boys and girls’ teams for the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games against Suriname.

The government has spent over $40 million to purchase shares held by a Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) subsidiary in the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI), Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has confirmed.

All-rounder Johnathan Foo said yesterday that talks with Jamaica Tallawahs players Dale Steyn and Kumar Sangakkara during the 2016 Hero Caribbean Premier League (HCPL) helped him to improve his cricket.

The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) last evening said that Antinfek has not replaced chlorine to treat water in Guyana, but that it is being researched by the utility, although documents have indicated that the chemical is being used in wells at Bartica, Diamond and Hillfoot, Linden-Soesdyke Highway and that $3.6 million have already being paid to the local subsidiary of the Thailand-based company Dove Biotech in a single source process.

Vendors due to take up spots at the reconstructed Kitty Market are concerned about the apparent lack of ventilation at the facility, which is scheduled to open on November 1.

Aesthetic muscleman Caerus Cipriani posed his chiseled physique and earned a silver medal at the ninth Darcy Beckles Bodybuilding Invitational Classic which was staged in Barbados on Saturday.

Banks DIH Limited is continuing its support for the Inter Guiana Games and officials of the company presented a sponsorship package to the National Sports Commission (NSC) ahead of this weekend’s Games in Guyana.

A lack of statistics on poverty here is a fundamental problem in addressing the country’s human rights situation and its challenges.

The sunken dredge that had blocked the Mazaruni River for months has finally been completely removed.

Richard Haniff was the winner of the annual Trophy Stall sponsored golf tournament played Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club course.

Everest Cricket Club crushed Diplomats by 256 runs in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/New Building Society second-division limited overs cricket tourney played last weekend.

Dear Editor, There seems to be a dangerously disturbing trend among many vehicle owners in Guyana.

The knowledge generation and sharing capabilities of the Coordinating Unit of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV&AIDS (PANCAP) relating to the new World Health Organization (WHO) ‘test and start’ guideline is expected to be enhanced with the help of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project.

Dear Editor, I learn that there are significant steps afoot regarding social cohesion. 

The son of Nichola Joseph, who is accused of killing her common-law husband, yesterday testified that on the day of the alleged crime he heard what sounded like a scuffle between the arguing couple and later saw the deceased bleeding from the chest.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Captain Jason Holder has hailed Darren Bravo’s eighth Test century in difficult final day circumstances and said his entire team had showed plenty character, despite their 56-run defeat to Pakistan in the day/night opening Test here yesterday.

STOCKHOLM, Reuters) – French World Cup winner Lilian Thuram has criticised FIFA’s decision to dissolve its anti-racism task force, telling Reuters he found the decision “shocking”.

High Commissioner of Canada to Guyana Pierre Giroux gave up his seat temporarily on Friday last to allow Guyanese teenager Kendra Warner to be High Commissioner for a day.

Dear Editor, I wish to clarify a mis-leading article titled, “Mother worried over delay in trial of Muslim scholar accused of molesting boys,” published on page 18 in yesterday’s Stabroek News.

Workers and customers of the Hua Supermarket located at Diamond, East Bank Demerara, were yesterday robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash during a mid-morning attack by gunmen.

(Reuters) – South Africa captain Faf du Plessis believes Australia will head into next month’s test series against his team mentally scarred following their one-day whitewash by the Proteas.

Dear Editor, In the month of September, 2016 I read in the dailies of Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago that the Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago Governments were planning to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) as it relates to the Trinidad and Tobago Government providing technical assistance, support and co-operation to help with the development of Guyana’s Oil and Gas sector.

A route 40 (Kitty/ Campbellville) bus driver and his conductor, who were charged with unlawfully wounding passengers, had the charges against them dismissed last week.

Dear Editor, I refer to a quote from Stabroek News’ article of October 15, titled ‘AG says Government can scrap orders to acquire Carmichael Street land’ Whatever the rights and wrongs of the argumentation surrounding this matter, there could hardly be a more comprehensive embarrassment emerging from the dialogue than the following alleged quote (albeit itemised): ‘I don’t know anything about running a Ministry’.

GREEN BAY, Wis/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump yesterday cited studies he said showed rampant voter fraud, saying the November 8 election was “rigged” against him even as Republican lawyers called his allegations unfounded.

(Reuters) – Tennis ‘bad boy’ Nick Kyrgios has been banned for eight tournament weeks for his conduct at the Shanghai Masters last week, the governing body for men’s tennis (ATP) said yesterday.

GUARENAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Deep inside a hilly Venezuelan slum, Ericka Torres rocks her three-month-old son Jesus to soothe his near-constant crying.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon declined to say yesterday whether the USS Mason destroyer was targeted by multiple inbound missiles fired from Yemen on Saturday, as initially thought, saying a review was under way to determine what happened.

LONDON, CMC – Jamaican Jimmy Adams has quit as head coach of English County Kent after five years in charge, further fuelling speculation he will take over the vacant role as West Indies head coach.

A teenager, accused of two gun-point hold ups in the South Ruimveldt and East La Penitence areas, was yesterday remanded to prison by a city magistrate.

Dear Editor, The Tagore Memorial Secondary School is an educational institution of distinction and dynamism.

(Reuters) – Serena Williams has withdrawn from the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore later this month citing a persistent shoulder injury, the world number two said yesterday.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Havana’s city government has temporarily suspended issuing licenses for new private restaurants in the city and warned existing ones to obey tough regulations, according to several owners of the businesses popular with foreign tourists.

Here’s what’s most troubling about the prominent Republicans who have deserted Donald Trump because of the video in which he made revolting remarks about women: Many of those same people stood by him for more than a year while he made almost daily statements demeaning Hispanics, as if that were OK.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – At least 25 inmates were killed, including six who were decapitated and burned, in clashes between rival criminal factions at a prison in northeastern Brazil, local media reported.

The supply of drugs to Region One (Barima/Waini) by Minister within the Ministry of Public Health Dr Karen Cummings was not enough and the region is once again left to deal with a shortage.

Dear Editor, I have been criss-crossing this country over the years and have had reasons to visit several police stations and observe the behaviour of police ranks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said yesterday that its founder Julian Assange’s internet was shut down by the government of Ecuador, deflecting blame from the US or British governments which have sparred with Assange for releasing sensitive material.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to respond to a letter written by the Mayor of Lethem, (`Lethem Council Meeting’, SN 15-10-2016).

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian and Syrian armed forces will pause attacks on the Syrian city of Aleppo for eight hours on Thursday to allow civilians and rebels to leave the city, theRussian Defence Ministry said yesterday.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities are investigating gruesome accusations that two men were murdered, mutilated by a confessed cannibal then fed to fellow prisoners in a riot at a police detention centre.

(Reuters) – One of the most eagerly-awaited clashes of the Premier League season turned into a major letdown as Liverpool and Manchester United nullified each other in a largely undistinguished goalless draw at Anfield yesterday.

In the absence of hard evidence to the contrary, one is not ideally well-placed to vigorously refute the claim made by the Guyana Police Force last week that there had been a twenty-one per cent drop in serious crimes at the end of September, compared with the same period last year.

A man who was charged with having illegal firearm and ammunition in his possession and stealing a little over $1 million in items, was remanded to prison last week when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman.

By Joseph E Stiglitz Joseph E Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979, is University Professor at Columbia University, Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.