Daily Archive: Monday, September 4, 2017

(Trinidad Express) An elderly woman was found murdered in her home at Chaguanas today.

  LONDON,  CMC – Veteran stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has praised the West Indies side for their dramatic comeback in the ongoing Test series against England, and has also defended them against unfair criticism from pundits in the media.

(Reuters) Hurricane Irma, barreling towards the Caribbean and the southern United States, was upgraded to a powerful Category 4 storm yesterday as islands in its path braced themselves.

(Trinidad Guardian) The people of Trinidad and Tobago have become quitters and cowards and it is high time now that they take back the country from the hands of criminals.

(ESPN) On a night when Barbados Tridents needed to win by a record-breaking margin in order to make the CPL 2017 playoffs, it was St Kitts & Nevis Patriots who instead created several fresh pages in the CPL record books, in a 10-wicket mauling of the home team at the Kensington Oval.

Former Auditor General, Anand Goolsarran says ExxonMobil’s funding of a recent trip by five government ministers to its Texas headquarters was improper and that the Guyana Government should reimburse the company.

GPL is looking for a 50-megawatt (MW) power plant that aims at tapping the country’s natural gas future and ensuring sufficient generation in the coming decade.

Though a Board of Inquiry (BoI) recommended in January that Western Scientific be blacklisted, around the middle of this year the Public Health Ministry (MoPH) single-sourced a $134.4m contract from the impugned Trinidadian company.

The storm that ripped through the Region Seven community of Kako on Friday night completely destroyed six homes and has left residents in great fear of a recurrence.

The Panthers rugby outfit are back-to-back club Sevens champions after blanking the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ruggers 17-0 yesterday at the National Park to lift the Trophy Stall 7s title.

The APNU+AFC coalition government’s shutting out of smaller parties’ input in decision making and attacking constructive criticisms from its supporters not only stifles the coalition’s growth but is giving the opposition positive political artillery.

All–rounder Sherfane Rutherford inspired East Bank to a tense come-from-behind 26-run victory over Georgetown after grabbing a second innings `five for’ and a match haul of 12 – 56 in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Jaguars three – day franchise league at the Lusignan Community Centre Ground, yesterday.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Captain Jason Holder said he was pleased West Indies had gotten valuable batting practice in their two-day tour match against Leicestershire, even though their hopes of giving their bowlers time in the middle ahead of this week’s Lord’s Test was foiled by bad light and rain here yesterday.

The unaudited after-tax profit for the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Group  up to June this year was $936m compared to $805m for the previous half year, according to the interim report published in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek.

—Colts hold on to defeat Kobras 69-67 Colts and Pacesetters secured hard-fought wins in the Under-23 division when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League tournament continued Saturday at the Burnham Court on Carmichael and Middle Streets.

A Venezuela-based Guyanese is feared dead after he went missing early Sunday morning following a boat mishap in the Barima River in the north west.

Dear Editor, A chorus representing a broad spectrum of individuals grows larger and louder with each passing day, which believes that incarcerating citizens, especially those from poor communities, for possessing or using small amounts of marijuana is unjust, unproductive and unwise.

Heavy winds accompanied by rain and lightning caused some damage in the vicinity of the Splashmins Fun Park, Soesdyke-Linden Highway yesterday afternoon and creek goers had to seek shelter The storm began shortly after 1 pm and lasted just over 15 minutes, said patrons who were taking a swim in the Madewini Creek outside of Splashmins.

Dear Editor, We have allowed the culture of carelessness to settle in.

Three Peat Promotions, organisers of the inaugural Guinness Cage Football Championship have said that the unexpected defeats of several of the high profile teams is a clear indication of the event’s unpredictable and competitive nature.

Sacked Permanent Secre-tary of the Ministry of Public Health, Trevor Thomas has been retained by the ministry as a contract worker on one of its main projects.

Dear Editor, It is always productive to have proper debate on issues affecting our economic development, especially the current state of the sugar industry.

League leader Den Amstel and Eagles FC secured contrasting wins, when the West Demerara leg of the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) U17 Football League continued yesterday.

Dear Editor, I seldom use these columns but am happy – and anxious – to pen a most, brief response to Mr Oncar Ramroop’s interesting clarification in your Sunday 3rd September 2017 edition (`Former Guyana National Co-operative Bank building is privately owned’).

(Reuters) – Skipper Virat Kohli scored his 30th one-day international century to lead India to victory in the fifth and final one-day match yesterday as the visitors won by six wickets to complete a 5-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka in Colombo.

A Community Policing Group (CPG) Officer and his sixteen-year-old son from Edinburgh Village, East Bank Berbice were on Saturday evening placed under arrest after they reportedly beat and stabbed a GuySuCo worker in the village.

Dear Editor, Lands purchased by Afro-Guyanese after emancipation were under attack by the then colonial state because they provided the freed slave with living space and potential independence.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is still investigating the circumstances surrounding the drowning of 18-year-old Devon George in the Mazaruni River two weeks ago.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – South African Wayne Parnell turned in a strong all-round performance as Barbados Tridents kept their slim playoff hopes alive with a 16-run victory over leaders Trinbago Knight Riders here Saturday night.

MONZA, Italy, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton won the Italian Grand Prix for Mercedes yesterday with an utterly dominant drive that sent the Briton clear at the top of the Formula One world championship for the first time in a year.

In a bid to resume broadcasting by this evening, MTV (Multi Technology Vision) 65 will be using salvaged parts from its fallen antenna to temporarily broadcast at a lower capacity.

Dear Editor, There are many sad stories daily in our country.

Dear Editor, I take time out to congratulate Dr George Norton on his ascension to the office of Minister responsible for Culture, Youth and Sport.

Forty residents of Pomeroon-Supenaam, Region Two are to benefit from the construction of 40 two-bedroom concrete houses at Onderneeming, phase three.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – Portugal helped their chances of qualifying directly for next year’s World Cup when Andre Silva’s goal gave them a bruising 1-0 win away to Hungary, who played for an hour with 10 men yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday delivered a more orderly, less haphazard response than he has offered to other provocations by North Korea after Pyongyang conducted a powerful nuclear test that intensified the pressure on his young presidency.

Banks DIH Limited and the General Workers’ Union signed a new three-year agreement on Wednesday in the presence of Charles Ogle, Chief  Labour Officer in the boardroom  of the Ministry of Social Protection on Brickdam, a release from the company said.

Dear Editor, Why should public officers be eligible for duty-free vehicles every three years and not every five years?

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova’s contentious and captivating U.S. Open run came to an end yesterday when Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova beat her 5-7 6-4 6-2 to reach the Flushing Meadows quarter-finals.

Dear Editor, I take this opportunity to salute our Amerindian brothers and sisters on the occasion of Amerindian Heritage Month.

Address by Dr. Harold A. Drayton, on the occasion of the launch of his book, An Accidental Life, University of Guyana, August 24, 2017 To the memory of Walter Rodney and Josh Ramsammy I thank our University, and especially Deputy Vice Chancellor, Dr.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports in collaboration with the Village Council of Wakapoa Community, Upper Pomeroon River is presently conducting a six-week training programme aimed at preserving the Amerindian Culture through art and craft and the Arawak language.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Tensions over sharp differences in pay between Mexican workers and their Canadian and U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a programme shielding from deportation immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children but will give Congress six months to craft legislation to replace it, sources familiar with the situation said.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Big-hitting former champion Juan Martin del Potro will battle baseline specialist Dominic Thiem when the pair meet on the Grandstand in the fourth round of the U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied a report by a Sunday newspaper alleging that he had affairs with several women, describing it as an attempt to discredit him ahead of the ruling party’s leadership contest.

Dear Editor, My friend and senior professional colleague, Mr EB John, has been doing yeoman service in pointing out deficiencies, flaws and anachronisms in various aspects of human resource management, including the improprieties in the categorization/classification of jobs within the public/ civil services of Guyana; his latest appeared copiously in various issues of the local media last week.

Two persons remain in police custody as investigations into the harbouring of prison escapees Royden Williams and the now dead Uree Varswyk continue.

Region Three’s top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) students were on Saturday honoured by the Region Three Chamber of Commerce and Industry (R3CCI) with cash incentives, trophies and certificates, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

In October 2015, with Guatemala wracked by decades of poor governance, the aftermath of death squads and corruption, comedian and political neophyte Jimmy Morales won an astounding 70% of the vote in the final round of the presidential election.

(Reuters) – Australia captain Steve Smith has said wicketkeeper Matthew Wade could be axed from the second test against Bangladesh in Chittagong after failing to do enough with the bat.

CONCEPCION DE BUENOS AIRES, Mexico  (Reuters) – The recipe for a record-breaking guacamole?

This column has been hesitant to comment on the recent visit to the Houston headquarters of ExxonMobil by five Ministers of the Government, the Petroleum Advisor to the President and two staff members of the Ministry of Natural Resources, until the fact are known as to the purpose for the trip and the source of funding.