Daily Archive: Sunday, February 19, 2017

(Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security has prepared new guidance for immigration agents aimed at speeding up deportations by denying asylum claims earlier in the process.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidadians living in the United States are being forced to adjust their travel plans as their potent anxiety reached fever pitch in the wake of an announcement on Thursday by US President Donald Trump to roll out new immigration measures tailored to a federal court decision that blocked his initial travel ban.

Broadening production Guyana has long sought to diversify its economy.  Economic diversification refers to broadening the production structure of the country. 

In the last few weeks, Washington think tanks, financial services analysts in New York and London, and publications from the New York Times to the Petroleum Argus, have all found a reason to express a view on Guyana, the Caribbean nation they now see as set to become one of the Western hemisphere’s major oil producers.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – West Indies batsman Shai Hope struck his second hundred in three days as Barbados Pride crowned themselves Regional Super50 champions with a commanding 59-run win over a listless Jamaica Scorpions in the championship final here yesterday.

Defending champions Showstoppers successfully retained their Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ West Demerara/East Bank Demerara zone title blanking budding rival Hustlers 2-0 Friday at the Pouderoyen Tarmac.

Today’s column continues the discussion of Guyana’s long declared policy option of seeking membership of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as a cornerstone of its approach to governance of the fast approaching time of oil and gas production and export.

By Royston Alkins An interesting situation is developing at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) where a number of concerned club members are peeved at the way things are unfolding at the Queenstown club.

– urge continuation of boycott Lawyers working with the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) have assured the public that the contract between City Hall and Smart City Solutions (SCS), which is at its core immoral, can easily be revoked.

Early in my music life, when I was trying my wings, a major influence was the work of the late Louise Bennett of Jamaica. 

  Golden Fleece on the Essequibo Coast is situated 13 miles north of Supenaam and is home to approximately 700 persons.

Veteran player Dennis Dias’s spectacular run in the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its corporate sponsor Digicel, Bounty Farm Limited handicap tournament ended yesterday when he was beaten in straight sets by Adam Alves in their quarter-final encounter at the Georgetown Club Inc.,

The photography of Bobby Fernandes has been a grace and glory in this land for decades.

The pacu is a fish related to the pirhana. The sweet water pacu has fearsome, human-like, teeth.

The Victoria Community Ground will come alive tonight when Mahaica Determinators engage Santos and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) oppose Den Amstel in quarterfinal matches of the Petra Organization’s Limacol football tournament.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has urged government to consider modernizing GuySuCo to diversify the output from cane harvesting and cut costs, while continuing to object to the closure of any more estates.

After last week’s Tastes Like Home column, I received several emails asking for the recipe for the steamed okra and tomato salad with the soy sauce-lime dressing.

The police in Trinidad and Tobago are investigating the murder of a Guyanese man, who was yesterday morning discovered stabbed to death in his Henderson Street, Chaguanas apartment.

By Royston Alkins  Akeaze Thompson captured career-best bowling figures against Essequibo to lead Demerara to a 10-wicket win at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday in a match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) female Inter-County competition.

              A Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) in a mangrove forest at Plastic City, Vreed-en-Hoop.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri used some of his harshest language yet against Venezuela’s socialist government in comments to Spanish media published yesterday ahead of his trip to Madrid.

All roads will lead to the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground in Linden tonight when Western Tigers tackle defending champions Milerock and Eagles engage Winners Connection in  quarterfinal matches of the Petra Organization/Limacol Football Championship.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) last evening called the government’s dismissal of the business community’s lack of confidence in its management of the economy disappointing, while noting that it failed to address any of the concerns raised about the perception of a decline.

After placing second a week ago in the Guyana Cycling Federation (GCF) 75-mile road race, Paul DeNobrega took his talents to the National Park yesterday and raced away with the spoils of the feature 35-lap event of the 26th R&R International 11-race programme.

The FIDE 2017 Women’s World Chess Champion-ship is underway in Tehran, Iran, amid the boycott of a handful of notable players.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said on Friday the United States had deported 117 migrants back to the island nation since ending its policy granting automatic residency to almost every Cuban who reached US soil as part of the normalization of relations.

Despite a court order, Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) may never be able to recover the more than $184 million owed by Bill Direct (Guyana) Incorporated for customer payments, according to a 2016 audit, which has found that it was the gross negligence and complicity by GPL’s management and executive officers that has resulted in the loss.

KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s government is investigating a video that appears to show Congolese troops shooting dead a group of apparent militia members armed with slingshots and wooden batons, the human rights minister said.

The father of one of the boys allegedly raped by Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali says that he wants the disappearance of key documents investigated quickly and the matter taken to the High Court so that justice can be served.

Sir Leon Lessons mauled Carmel Secondary 5-0 when the 5th Milo U18 Secondary Schools Football championships continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

After a hard-fought battle with rare bone cancer two years ago, 50-year-old Sukree Boodram thought she was winning when she was told that she was in remission.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will participate at the upcoming International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Professional Football Conference to be held in San Jose, Puerto Rico.

The fire on Wednesday evening that destroyed two Princes Street dwellings was caused after a generator exhaust overheated and caused a mattress to combust, a source has confirmed.

Dear Editor, I refer to your lengthy editorial, ‘Minister Jordan’s response’, which appeared in Stabroek News, Friday, February 17.

MUNICH (Reuters) – A new version of a Trump administration travel ban will not stop green card residency holders or travellers already on planes from entering the United States, US Secretary for Homeland Security John Kelly said yesterday.

New Year’s Day Amid the boom of firecrackers a year has come to an end, And the spring wind has wafted warm breath to the wine.

Véron Mosengo-Omba, International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) Director of Member Associations and Development for the Caribbean and Africa has declared that the dispute surrounding the four elite league clubs and the federation is a closed matter.

By Tim Weiner Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. His books include Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police said yesterday they had arrested a North Korean man in connection with the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as a diplomatic spat over his body escalated.

By Tony Karon NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s administration has shocked the mainstream press by bullying news outlets and unabashedly trafficking in “alternative facts” (also known as lies).

Christopher Boucher, the 13-year-old who sustained injuries to his left eye last October after being pelted with a brick, received the unfortunate news last week that he will never regain sight in the damaged eye.

‘Mash’, Trinidad Carnival or that special event that you have to attend is right around the corner.

This Camp Street coconut water vendor sells dozens of the refreshing beverage every day, skillfully opening the nuts with a southpaw approach.

Dear Editor, I do not have the time to write the ‘Development Watch’ columns at this point because of some pressing research I am conducting and other commitments that would keep me very occupied for the rest of 2017.

Dear Editor, The news that Guyana was closer to joining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was well received in Trinidad and Tobago, especially by those of us involved in the energy sector.

(Reuters) – New versions of Monopoly will no longer give players the option of using a tiny silver-colored thimble as their pawn on the board, after fans voted to drop the piece that had featured in the game since its introduction in 1935.

A new executive led by President Coel Marks has taken grip and will shoulder the weight of local bodybuilding affairs for the next two years.

MUNICH (Reuters) – One month into the unusual presidency of Donald Trump, his most senior cabinet members were deployed to Brussels, Bonn and Munich this week to reassure nervous Europeans that everything would be okay.

Over the last few weeks I have received many queries on how to care for potted house plants and what type of plant food to use.

The decomposed body of an unidentified man was yesterday afternoon discovered in the empty lot, which once housed the Guyana Sports Club, opposite the National Park, Thomas Lands.

DEMERARA Woods Limited (DWL) the large state-owned timber company, has been sold by government to English investors for US$16.5m.

It seems that Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and her APNU councillors still have not really grasped the true nature of what has happened in relation to their pet project, viz, the parking meters.