Daily Archive: Friday, April 14, 2017

An East Canje man was yesterday found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to his son who he had set afire with methylated spirits when the 11-year-old child tried to stop him from leaving their house for more alcohol.

A Sophia resident was last evening taken into custody after sixty-six grams of cannabis and several  electronic gadgets intended to be delivered to an inmate in one of the country’s correctional facilities, were found in her possession at a restaurant in Timehri, East Bank Demerara, police say.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ANSA Mc Al Group has taken the challenge upon themselves to train its women staff in self defense, especially given the fact that there has been several recent reports of crime violence against women throughout the country—some of them beaten, abducted and in some instances, killed.

KABUL, (Reuters) – As many as 36 suspected Islamic State militants were killed in Afghanistan when the United States dropped “the mother of all bombs,” one of the largest non-nuclear devices ever unleashed in combat, the Afghan defence ministry said today.

A parliamentary debate cut short because of time constraints followed by a PPP/C walkout saw the controversial State Assets Recovery Bill being passed shortly before 10pm yesterday.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has sounded an alarm over the pollution of rivers in the Upper Mazaruni area, in Region Seven, which it says are under threat from reckless and illegal mining.

Speaker Dr. Barton Scotland yesterday refused an application by former attorney-general Anil Nandlall to adjourn the scheduled business of the National Assembly to consider a motion calling on President David Granger to revoke the appointment of the Commission of Inquiry into land ownership.

-ten countries vying for honours The Caribbean Pre-Cadet, Cadet and Junior Table Tennis Championship begins today at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, and emotions are running high as a number of Caribbean youth gear up to serve and loop their way to championship honours.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused a small leadership clique of “hijacking” West Indies cricket and argues that unless fundamental changes are made in the area of governance, the region will continue to languish behind the rest of the cricketing world.

Consultants working along with the Ministry of Public Infrastructure have identified Houston/Versailles as the most economically viable option for siting a new Demerara River Bridge, out of seven identified sites.

All roads will lead to the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue tomorrow as, East Ruimveldt giant and crowd favourite, Back Circle battle East La Penitence juggernaut, Sparta Boss in a titanic clash for the Petra Organization Futsal Championship.

A US$7.96 million loan agreement has been inked between the Government of Guyana and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for a sustainable development project to benefit over 80 indigenous communities in regions One and Nine.

A poultry farmer is now in police custody after 11 pounds of cocaine was found in his car yesterday afternoon.

—Yadram and Rutherford set to make debut The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), yesterday, released the names of a squad mixed with an ideal balance of youth and experience as the two-time defending champions hunt for a third successive Regional 4-day championship, on the back of a number of strong performances throughout the season.

Name: Navindra Persaud  Age: 14 Local titles won: Two (last in 2013) Experience for Guyana; Guyana 2013, USA 2015, 2016 Category competing in: Under 15 singles, doubles, mix doubles and team Style of play: Right hand defense Strengths: Serves, ball control and backhand School: Queen’s College Secondary Goals: “I hope to represent my county well and play to the best of my ability.

A jury yesterday watched the video recording of Melroy Doris telling police that it was his co-accused Lennox Wayne, called `Two Colours’ who shot and killed beautician Ashmini Harriram at Lusignan in July, 2014.

Three Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) employees, who are accused of attempting to steal money from a customer of the company, are now on bail after denying the charge.

Dear Editor, Recently I was privileged to be on a study tour to Colombia and Mexico as part of the Government of Guyana’s Sustainable Urban Tran-sport Study (SUTS) for Georgetown, through the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI).

The Guyana Rugby Football Union has postponed the 2017 Bounty Farm 15s first division matches in order to accommodate the preparations of the national team for its away game versus Barbados on May 13, and the home game against Trinidad and Tobago in June.

On a night that featured wins for 2013 titlist Plaisance-A and 2014 champion Melanie-A, 2015 winner Beterverwagting (BV)-A was dumped from the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ East Coast leg, losing 2-1 on sudden death penalty kicks to Top-7.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were accused of wounding another man, who is now hospitalised.

Dear Editor, The recent setting up of a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) “to examine and make recommendations to resolve all issues and    uncertainties surrounding the claims of Amerindian land titling, the individual, joint or communal ownership of lands acquired by freed Africans and on any matters relating to land titling in Guyana” is the latest move by Government that is creating disunity amongst the peoples of this country.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,CMC – Jason Mohammed has his eyes set on a Test debut as he seeks to build on his recent success in the limited overs format for West Indies.

Dear Editor, I respond to an aspect of Orrin Gordon’s letter ‘A very useful plant was given away with nothing coming to the community’ (SN, April 13).

Government is looking to resuscitate the Public Service Appellate Tribunal, which has been defunct over for two decades.

Dear Editor, The debate over VAT on private education is one of the great ironies of our time.

The wholehearted support of the business community for the University of Guyana is unlikely to be forthcoming in circumstances where the institution provides little if any meaningful evidence of its worthiness of that support, Vice Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith has said.

BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Michel Temer denied yesterday that he hosted a meeting in 2010 where an executive of engineering firm Odebrecht SA was asked to arrange an illegal payment of $40 million to his political party.

The Ministry of Natural Resources will be moving to allocate land at Marudi Mountain, in Region Nine, to small miners from persons who have permits but are not using them as well those who have not paid their fees, Minister Raphael Trotman announced on Wednesday.

A delay in the release of a 2013 audit report continues to prevent the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union (GPSCCU) from hosting its Annual General Meeting.

Guyanese are notoriously shameless when it comes to copying people — or borrowing ideas.

CARACAS/MARACAIBO, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition was rallying across the nation yesterday as part of a bid to strain security forces by staging anti-government protests in each of the volatile country’s 335 municipalities.

LONDON, (Reuters) – IAAF chief Sebastian Coe said on Thursday he was disappointed by the lack of progress being made by Russia in cleaning up its anti-doping regime and made it clear that the ban on the country’s athletics federation would continue indefinitely.

Dear Editor, Recent coverage in the media regarding the preaching and proselytizing of a particular religion in the public schools in Guyana which is a secular state has, among other things, raised one’s awareness about the impropriety of the state and/or its corporations tolerating such activities.

Dear Editor, I would like to extend Easter greetings to all Guyanese.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The United Airlines passenger dragged from a plane in Chicago in an incident that sparked international outrage and turned into a corporate public relations nightmare suffered a concussion and broken nose and will likely sue, his attorney said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Miami Heat completed a stirring second half to the NBA regular season by setting a new milestone on Wednesday but their brilliance was not rewarded with a playoff berth as the growing trend of resting players took on extra significance.

The past three weeks or so of prevailing rock-bottom prices for greens and vegetables in local municipal markets attested to the possibilities that obtain in the widely-held view the Guyana can indeed be the food security hub of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).

A new ombudsman is likely to be named by the end of April, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.

FALMOUTH, Trelawny,  CMC – WICB President’s XI head coach, Graeme West, said Thursday it was important those players on the fringe of West Indies selection used the three-day tour game against Pakistan to remind selectors of their credentials.

At a time when the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is seeking to expand its services to members, the organization is experiencing, “significant growth in membership,” immediate past president of the business support organization Vishnu Doerga has said..

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to end its 13-year-long peacekeeping mission in Haiti and replace it with a smaller police unit, which would be drawn down after two years as the country boosts its own force.

BERNE,  (Reuters) –  European football was given good and bad reminders of its past on Thursday with an impressive 2-0 win for once-mighty Ajax Amsterdam over Schalke 04 in one Europa League game but ugly scenes in the crowd at Lyon delaying another.

The wife of a former Toshao was on Wednesday charged with stealing her husband’s shotgun.

Dear Editor, I write this letter in support of Swami Aksharananda and in defence of the Guyanese ethos. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States dropped “the mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear device it has ever unleashed in combat, on a network of caves and tunnels used by Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, the military said.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – The Caribbean Premier League will once again stage matches in the United States during the upcoming campaign, organisers have announced.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is seeking to enhance its technical capacity to maximise returns from the country’s gold-mining industry whilst improving the sector’s environmental footprint by engaging the services of internationally-known geologist Professor Richard Goldfarb who is currently on a brief visit to Guyana.

Dear Editor, Over thirteen thousand children will compete for less than a thousand allocated places at the senior secondary schools in the country.

BEIJING/PYONGYANG,  (Reuters) – Military force cannot resolve tension over North Korea, China said yesterday, while an influential Chinese newspaper urged the North to halt its nuclear programme in exchange for Chinese protection.

Dear Editor, A total of seventeen locally-based players was selected in a provisional squad of thirty, to pursue training ahead of a friendly international against Martinique on March 28 at the MSC ground, Linden.

(Trinidad Guardian) The signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Canada-based Wylde Orchid Design and Management Ltd and local firm Prime US Inter-national Ltd to construct 120,000 homes in T&T, is being seen as a solution to solving the 100,000-plus Housing Development Corporation (HDC) applicant waiting list.

BESLAN/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia broke European human rights law by using excessive force to storm a school seized by Islamist militants in 2004, causing a high number of hostages to be killed, the continent’s rights court ruled yesterday.

Greetings to all on this Holiest of Christian Days. I intend to be briefly repetitive.

Based on what he had to say on the issue during a recent lengthy interview for a forthcoming issue of the Guyana Review, it is clear that University of Guyana (UG) Vice Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Griffith believes that the future of the university will be heavily dependent on the quality of the relationship that it can cultivate with the private sector.

For the first time since its establishment in 1957, Guyana’s Bureau of Statistics has moved into its own dedicated building – the former Customs House on Main Street.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation and published by Stabroek Business as a public service)The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 716’s trading results showed consideration of $8,840,485 from 179,273 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 715’s trading results, which showed consideration of $11,416,955 from 270,360 shares traded in 12 transactions. 

Dear Editor, From the number of adversarial encounters being reported as occurring in communities (old and new) across the country, it would appear as if those who supervise are clearly uncertain of their authority (or competence) to intervene and advise the raft of novices floating on top of creaky government entities.