Daily Archive: Monday, June 5, 2017

The PPP today said that Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland had disallowed a plan by the Economic Services Committee of Parliament for meetings in the sugar belt.

Representatives of the Society Against Sexual Orientation (SASOD) and Guyana Trans United (GTU) today met with Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs  Basil Williams, S.C,

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will not invoke executive privilege to block former FBI Director James Comey’s much-anticipated testimony before Congress this week, his first since Trump abruptly fired him early last month.

Close to 380 (335 scales, 43 masses and 2 rules) unapproved and unverified devices were seized from vendors from both the Bourda and Stabroek Markets in a raid conducted on Friday by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS)’ inspectors.

The 400 kilowatt Mabaruma solar farm which will provide an additional 17 hours of power to the 3,000 residents of Mabaruma in Region One is closer to realisation, as all tenders are at the evaluation stage.

Some two months after the Director of Public Prosecutions ordered the reopening of the Preliminary Inquiry into the murder of Courtney Crum-Ewing, murder accused Regan Rodrigues, aka ‘Grey Boy’ was today freed of the charge for the second time, after the prosecution failed to prove its case.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Wonder Woman” is officially a box office hero.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed their ties with Qatar today, accusing it of supporting terrorism and opening up the worst rift in years among some of the most powerful states in the Arab world.

After years of pleading by residents for work to be done on the East Bank Berbice main access road, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, yesterday announced that the project will commence today.

Life would be made easier for working people when the Giftland Mall opens its FoodMaxx supermarket that offers “next generation shopping” at competitive prices, the company says.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he will accept an invitation from President David Granger to meet next Monday for further talks on the appointment of a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (Gecom).

Minister of Business with responsibility for Tourism,  Dominic Gaskin, says that last year, a total of 235,000 visitors arrived in Guyana, a 17 per cent increase over the previous year and so far for the first quarter of 2017, a six per cent increase was recorded as opposed to the same period in 2016.

With sugar production out of existence at the Wales estate on the West Bank of Demerara, government is moving ahead with its seed paddy cultivation and has completed 185 hectares of land out of the proposed 200.

A Corentyne man was on Friday afternoon found guilty by a jury at the High Court in New Amsterdam of murdering his mother-in-law, Neelawattie Isaac also known as ‘Navita’, 36, on  December 16th, 2014 at Whim Village, Corentyne.

A Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara businessman was found dead in his yard yesterday with a gunshot wound to his head in what is suspected to be a case of suicide.

Team Guyana’s athletes ran, threw and leapt past their total medal count in the history of the South American U-20 championships following the conclusion of the 42nd edition of the event last evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Dear Editor, Like every other reasonable-minded Guyanese but moreso, because I played a role in assembling both lists of persons which the Opposition Leader submitted to the President for the appointment of a Chairman of GECOM, I am disappointed by the President’s rejection of these lists.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – West Indies easily beat an out-of-sorts Afghanistan by 29 runs under the Duckworth/Lewis system in a low-key, rain-hit affair, to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series here Saturday night.

The Jamaica Customs Agency is reporting a seizure of more than 165 pounds of cocaine in containers from Guyana and Suriname.

Dear Editor, In response to my letter which appeared in SN on May 28, wherein I expressed concern about the financial viability of the newly constructed Plantain Chip Factory on the Island of Leguan, Sherod Duncan, Communications Officer in the Ministry of Business (MoB) pointed out that it was conceived by the PPP/C government.

A forty-two-year-old cattle farmer of Adelphi Village, East Canje, was yesterday morning struck down and killed by motor car, PSS 6395, along the Number 19 Public Road at around 1:30 am.

Demerara ended day one of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Hand-in-Hand Under-19 three-day Inter-County tournament on 230 – 5, some 124 runs ahead of Essequibo’s first innings total at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary, yesterday.

While there has been no word from the procuring entity, the Ministry of Education, on the promised report into the $42M Palmyra, Berbice monument base collapse, works last week ceased again at the site.

Dear Editor, This year marks sixty years since the formation of the People’s National Congress (PNC) and the party, now once again in the driver’s seat, is going out of its way to rewrite its history and role in the development, or some may say underdevelopment, of the country’s socio-political and economic architecture.

Cougars FC reached the final of the Berbice Football Association (BFA) sanctioned J’s Golden Arrow Under-20 tournament after edging Orealla Falcons 4-3 on penalty kicks Friday.

Dear Editor, The letter received by the Leader of the Opposition from President Granger whereby the President rejected the second list of persons from which a Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, not unacceptable to the President, shall be appointed (once a list is submitted by the Leader of the Opposition) concludes with the following, “I have examined the Curricula Vitae of the six persons in light of the criteria defined in my letter to you dated 2017.03.14.

A Linden motorcyclist died yesterday after begin involved in an accident on the Amelia’s Ward, Linden Public Road.

Traditional giant Marian Academy secured wins in the boys U16 and the girls divisions when the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) ‘Georgetown/East Coast Regional Conference continued on Saturday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Defending champion Garbine Muguruza departed Roland Garros in tears after losing to home favourite Kristina Mladenovic in the fourth round, but men’s champion Novak Djokovic eased into the French Open quarter-finals yesterday.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) Major (rtd) Aubrey Heath-Retemyer has dismissed suggestions that the agency is being influenced by members of the government.

Dear Editor, It was a magnificent setting ‒ Marlborough House the home of the Commonwealth Secretariat across the road from St James’ Palace in London’s posh clubland. 

Police in ‘C’ Division are investigating the death of a patient from the West Demerara Regional Hospital who reportedly committed suicide.

Dear Editor, The headline of the Tuesday May 30, 2017 edition of Kaieteur News screams in bold coloured letters: ‘Senior Customs official ordered BK’s vehicle released’ and refers the reader to page 7 of the said edition, whereon a photograph of me as “Head of Customs Enforcement arm” along with Brian Tiwarie and an SUV appeared in juxtaposition under the aforesaid headline.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Head coach Stuart Law says West Indies will consider giving their reserve players a run in today’s final Twenty20 International against Afghanistan, but remain keen on making a clean sweep of the series.

Dear Editor, I am impressed by the scope and sweep of the letter from Mr Christopher Ram titled, ‘The lawyers have put their profession in cold storage’ (SN May 31). 

The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) hosted its eighth annual AIDS Candlelight Memorial last Sunday as part of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Festival in Guyana.

LONDON, CMC – Outstanding Barbadian seamer Jofra Archer snatched a four-wicket haul to help push Worcestershire towards defeat on the penultimate day of their County Championship match at Hove here yesterday.

The probe into an alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger is still continuing, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said on Friday.

Drainage works have begun on the Sheriff Street Canal and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure is looking to complete the project by next Sunday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Organisation of American States (OAS) has failed to pass either of two resolutions on Venezuela as member countries fail to agree on the way forward.

Dear Editor, During the past week the Minister of Natural Resources said that steps would be taken in relation to the operations of sand pits, but when I heard the newscast I was really disappointed with the way the Minister explained the reason for taking those steps.

Allrounder Roston Chase has been rewarded for his consistent run in the Pakistan Tests with a maiden call-up to West Indies’ One Day International (ODI) squad for the three-match series against Afghanistan.

(Jamaica Observer) Kelly Tomblin didn’t hesitate when she admitted that the greatest challenge she faced in her five years at Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) was electricity theft.In

President David Granger on Saturday said that while Guyana is on the brink of self-sufficiency, the country must, as a matter of priority, achieve total food security.

Dear Editor, I wonder if I am the only person in this country complaining about the quality of the internet that is currently provided to us by GTT, after we have faithfully paid our monthly fee.

This week on what the people say we asked the man/woman in the street about the smoking of tobacco products in public places and whether tariffs should be increased on cigarettes.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain must be tougher in stamping out Islamist extremism after attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing revellers in nearby bars.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has rejected claims that Jamaican immigration, customs or security personnel searched a Trinidadian Minister of Government at the Norman Manley International Airport on Friday.

Dear Editor, Why is the West Indies not participating in the Champions Trophy?

BIRMINGHAM, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli smashed an unbeaten 81 to spur his side to a crushing 124-run victory over rivals Pakistan in a rain-shortened Champions Trophy Group B clash yesterday.

The 26th anniversary conference and exhibition of the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), to be held in October, will bring together over 400 participants from the Caribbean, Latin America, North America and Europe, who will engage to share ideas, information, and new technologies in water, wastewater and waste management.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin strongly denied he had any compromising material about U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) UN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS to the Caribbean, Dr Edward Greene, has revealed that Jamaica and Cuba are among the two countries in the region which have seen major increases in HIV infections.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) would like to respond to a letter written by Mr Sookram Persaud in the Kaieteur News and Guyana Chronicle on May 31 and titled ‘Incompetence and confusion stalking GuySuCo’ and ‘Bad move to send Albion’s sugar to the Enmore Packaging Plant’.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Australian cricket board said it was comfortable with the level of security provided to their Champions Trophy team following Saturday night’s attack in London that killed seven people.

By The Caribbean Voice The Caribbean Voice is a New York-based NGO that has been involved in social activism since its launch in 1998.

The arrests of 20 persons two weekends ago in the Region Eight village of  Chenapau and the subsequent decision not to have charges pursued against them exposes the clumsiness and disorder in the government, not dissimilar to what preceded it.

The pollution produced by companies which operate in less developed countries in ways they could never do at home, in those countries in which they raise their capital: We note that often the businesses that operate this way are multinationals.

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News of 22nd May informs us of the findings of a study done by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) concluded in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica Bahamas and Suriname.

(Trinidad Express) A 17-year-old boy and a man were killed during a card game in Ste Madeleine yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has pinpointed Bangladesh’s bowling attack as the weak link ahead of their Champions Trophy match today.

PORTLAND, Ore., June 4 (Reuters) – Riot police turned out in force in downtown Portland yesterday to maintain order as supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump faced off in dueling political rallies, a week after racially charged killings that shook Oregon’s largest city.