Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Following a probe into the circumstances surrounding the death of Faiyaz Narinedatt, a carpenter of No.

Communities Minister, Ronald Bulkan said Government will not provide a $600M “bailout” for City Hall.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Faf du Plessis has been found guilty of ball-tampering and fined his entire match fee from the second test against Australia in Hobart but the South Africa captain has been cleared to play in this week’s third and final match of the series.

The D’Urban Park project was financed and managed in its first phase by Homestretch Development Incorporated, a private company owned by Larry London and associates, Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson told the National Assembly last evening.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,CMC – Leeward Islands Hurricanes laid waste to a 33-year-old record by executing the highest successful run chase in the history of the modern first class championship, as they shocked two-time reigning champions Guyana Jaguars by four wickets here Monday.

A West Ruimveldt resident was early yesterday morning gunned down in full view of his friend while returning home from a dance held in the community.

North Georgetown District 11 finished atop the points standing of the  56th edition of the Guyana Teacher Union (GTU)/Ministry of Education/Digicel National Schools Swimming Championships held yesterday at the National Aquatic Centre at Pattensen.

From Donald Duff in New York Defending world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway had stated on Sunday that the series of drawn games was at an end.

Cycling powerhouse, Corentyne (District Six) is holding on to the lead by the width of a wheel following the first day of racing at the National Park in this year’s National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships.

Ex-policeman Devon Chase was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail for possession of a pistol and ammunition that he and two other men were found with following last Monday’s high speed car chase with police in the city.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Russia’s Yuliya Zaripova has been stripped of the gold medal she won in the women’s 3,000 metres steeplechase at the 2012 London Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Monday.

Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton was yesterday referred to the Committee of Privileges after Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland found that a prima facie case was made out against him as regards the inaccurate statements he made on August 8, in the House on government’s rental of the controversial Sussex Street bond.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Champion left-arm spinner Nikita Miller snatched his 24th five-wicket haul in first class cricket to fire Jamaica Scorpions to a stunning come-from-behind 41-run victory over hapless Windward Islands Volcanoes here Monday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – South Africa captain Faf du Plessis will face a ball-tampering hearing at 3:30 p.m.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,CMC – Barbados Pride pulled off an emphatic victory over Trinidad and Tobago Red Force here Monday, when they crushed their perennial arch-rivals by 292 runs, to notch their first win of the newly minted Regional Four-Day Championship.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has been banned for one test and his team fined for their slow over rate during the first match against New Zealand in Christchurch.

Five persons, including a suspect who was arrested yesterday, will today be charged with the murder of carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt and the police are making every effort to have US based-Guyanese Marcus Brian Bisram, the alleged mastermind, returned to Guyana for questioning.

(The Sports Xchange) Bulls 118, Lakers 110 With Dwyane Wade taking the night off, Jimmy Butler carried the Chicago Bulls to victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.

Former mayor Hamilton Green yesterday lashed out at non-government bodies, which, over the weekend, objected the bill proposed to award him a pension for the period he served as prime minister of Guyana 1985-92.

Auto Fashion emerged winners of the Beginner’s Golf tournament, while Parmanand “Max” Persaud walked away as the champion of the Grand Coastal Inn Annual tournament during last weekend’s action at the Lusignan Golf Course.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in collaboration with the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Guyana (UG) yesterday launched its Emergency Nursing Degree Programme, which is the first of its kind in the Caribbean.

Dear Editor, The letter in Stabroek News of November 15, captioned ‘Some Region 2 pensioners cannot receive pension because of bureaucratic error’ refers.

BULAWAYO, (Reuters) – Lightning and heavy rain caused Monday’s one-day international between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka be abandoned after 13 overs.

Increases in violent crime and other mounting security concerns in the Caribbean region call for a collective approach, Attorney General and Minister of Home Affairs of Barbados Adriel Brathwaite said yesterday, while he also lamented the lack of financial commitments to combat the situation.

Dear Editor, When I read of the Bill re Mr Hamilton Green’s pension to be presented in Parliament I was reminded of the saying: ‘It’s an ill wind that blows no good’.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) TENELEC Inc.1st Division 50 Over competition continued this past week with games across the Ancient County.

Even in the face of strenuous opposition, the government is going full speed ahead with the Hamilton Green pension bill which was read for the first time in the National Assembly yesterday.

Assistant Superintendent of Police Jermaine Grant was yesterday released on $300,000 bail after he denied causing the death of Vreed-en-Hoop resident Anmanie Deonarine more than a month ago.

(Reuters) – Juergen Klinsmann has been fired as head coach of the U.S.

Dear Editor, Best wishes to Stabroek News on the celebration of 30 years. 

A hearing on the appeal of the decision of former acting Chief Justice Ian Chang that both men and women are free to cross-dress in public once the reason for doing so is not improper, was held last Friday at the Court of Appeal in Georgetown.

Buxton United and Botafogo battled to a 2-2 draw when the Turbo Energy Drink sponsored Fruta Conquerors U19 Academy League continued Saturday at the Tucville Community ground.

Dear Editor, The Medical Council of Guyana notes with regret Freddie Kissoon’s attack on Cuban-trained Guyanese doctors in his Kaieteur News column of November 18 titled ‘Guyanese messengers of death from Cuba have returned’.

Dear Editor, I have neither the power nor the authority to claim to know what was the mental process at work when Ian McDonald penned his recent piece, ‘Confronting power’ (November 20).

Rolston Bacchus, who was charged with procuring two women to smuggle cocaine, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined $11.1 million for the crime.

  Fruta Conquerors and Guyana Defence Force (GDF) secured contrasting wins over debutants Topp XX and Victoria Kings, respectively, when season II in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League commenced on Sunday.

Dear Editor, The adverse public reaction to news that the Minister of Finance is presenting a Bill to give a pension, benefits and other facilities to Hamilton Green that is set to cost the state some $16 million annually was expected. 

Twenty-five young adults from the US Embassy’s Youth Action Network (YAN) were recently able to benefit from a one day ‘Youth Entrepreneurial Leadership Masterclass’, the objective of which was to enhance their skill levels.

VISAKHAPATNAM, India, (Reuters) – India spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Jayant Yadav claimed three wickets apiece in the second innings tthe hosts to a comfortable 246-run win in the second test against England on Monday and a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.

Dear Editor, The Public Relations Officer of the city council has written to the press about consultations done to determine the priorities for the Georgetown municipality and about pervasive criticisms levelled “every time the Georgetown Municipality seeks to employ a new revenue earning venture”.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Election tensions spilled onto Haiti’s streets yesterday with shots fired outside the presidential palace as various candidates claimed victory in a re-run vote in the impoverished Caribbean country.

Patrick Goodluck and Collis Amos, who were captured and severely beaten by North Ruimveldt residents after a home invasion in August, will each be spending the next 24 months in jail after being found guilty of attempting to commit a felony.

Dear Editor, Now that the AFC has announced the party’s national conference will be in January 2017, it leaves many to ponder as to its accuracy. 

  A 60-month sentence and an $80 million fine were yesterday handed down to each of the two men who were held last year with almost 130 pounds of cannabis after a shootout with police in Kitty.

TOKYO (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake rock-ed northern  Japan  today, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer warned yesterday that the national debt could swell to the size of the country’s gross domestic product within eight years should public spending not be brought under control and fiscal reforms not enacted.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President-elect Donald Trump met with a stream of Cabinet hopefuls at his Manhattan office tower yesterday, but made no further announcements, keeping candidates and the public guessing about the shape of the administration that will take over on January 20.

Dear Editor, In Guyana corruption is a good word to start a conversation with or even better to initiate an argument.

Tuschen taxi driver Leroy Marshall was remanded to prison yesterday on charges of the unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition, which the police say a sniffer dog found hidden in his car.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombian authorities arrested a dozen people on charges of trafficking girls into prostitution as part of an international human trafficking ring that preyed on poor teenagers in a jungle town in the country’s south, state prosecutors said yesterday.

Dear Editor, There are more delays in Guyana’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) REDD+ Readiness project since there seems to be little or no movement in the implementation of this project by the IDB in collaboration with the Ministry of Natural Resources.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The number of besieged Syrians has more than doubled over the past year to nearly one million, the United Nations aid chief told the Security Council yesterday, as the United States named 13 Syrian military commanders it accused of killing civilians.

  Uganda has offered to assist Guyana in the development of its oil and gas sector and has advised that the creation of a legal framework be the first step.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is healthy and has no cancerous tumours but will take medication and undergo one session of radiotherapy to eliminate any vestiges of a previous bout with the disease, he said yesterday.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck central New Zealand today, little more than a week after a powerful tremor centred in the upper South Island rocked the country and killed two people.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday voiced its concern that nearly 100 Cuba-trained doctors are still awaiting placement although they have completed their compulsory one-year internship and there is a prevailing shortage of medical staff countrywide.

One can appreciate the sense of frustration felt by the Georgetown City Council’s Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis over what, by her own admission in her letter to SN of November 19, is the customary “widespread criticism” inflicted upon the municipality every time it “seeks to employ a new revenue earning venture.” 

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The bodies of nine men with signs of torture were discovered in the poor, hyper-violent Mexican state of Guerrero, the state government said yesterday.

Dear Editor, Today I step forward to advocate that some processes and situations be changed from what is known and practised. 

ONE of the implications of the budget was that with the influx of funds from the Support Group and other institutions the foreign cur­rency situation would improve considerably and the Bank of Guyana would be better able to deal with the legitimate requests of business­men for raw materials, spare parts and other items.