Daily Archive: Sunday, November 5, 2017

  SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas,  (Reuters) – A gunman dressed in black tactical gear massacred at least 26 worshipers and wounded 20 others at a white-steepled church in Texas yesterday, carrying out the latest in a series of mass shootings that have plagued the United States.

(WICB) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Selection Panel of Cricket West Indies has announced a 15-member Windies squad for the two-Test series on the Tour of New Zealand, starting later this month.

Seven men have been held by the police over the possession of two pistols.

(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer narrowly escaped being shot and killed at his Foster Road, Sangre Grande home on Friday night.

The legal minds advising the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) have a responsibility to ensure that solid cases are taken before the court, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who says that government will continue to pump resources into the unit to boost its investigative capacity.

Story and photos by Joanna Dhanraj Goedverwagting, East Cost Demerara is enclosed by Sparendaam, Ogle, farmland and the Atlantic Ocean in the north.

The parliamentary opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday declared that current Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) James Patterson should be fired for misleading President David Granger over his appointment in Grenada, where he had served as acting Chief Justice.

A Berbice mother is demanding justice after her 14-year-old daughter and a classmate were allegedly drugged and raped by two Corentyne men last week.

A 24-year-old labourer died on Friday night after he was shot multiple times during a row over a woman in Sophia.

Vital information from residents in far flung communities in Region Nine about sightings of illegal aircraft and suspected illegal activities were sluggishly acted upon, according to the findings of Brigadier (ret’d) Edward Collins’ investigation of the discovery of a foreign aircraft near to Yupukari, Region Nine last year.

Permanent Secretary of the Department of Public Service Reginald Brotherson recently revealed that government has transitioned 4,000 former contract workers to the fixed establishment and the Auditor General’s (AG’s) 2016 Report has recorded unspent balances of $276.8 million due to the transfers.

A trip to the seawall by an Indian national and his wife ended with them being held at gunpoint by bandits, who robbed them of their car on Friday evening.

With 20 months having elapsed since the commencement of rehabilitative works on the Kitty Market, vendors have grown pessimistic about the market’s completion.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be reviewing vending along Robb Street, Town Clerk Royston King has said.

Sugar workers were told last Thursday that they must stand united in the fight and let their voices be heard in hopes of ensuring that the Rose Hall estate stays in operation.

A $23 million contract has been awarded for the provision of internet services at the Kato Secondary School and according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon this is part of government’s plan to ensure that hinterland schools are on par with those on the coast.

Cabinet has granted a no-objection to a US$37.6 million contract with multinational Chinese firm Huawei for a project that could see Guyana’s technological landscape transformed, with government providing more services via the internet.

The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Guyanese Alumni (YLAI Guyana) in collaboration with the U.S

For months Penny Glen, a mother of three, struggled with emotional issues which she could not have described, all of which came to bare when she realized that she could no longer communicate with her eldest daughter who moved from being a normal child to a withdrawn teenager.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Guyana Jaguars made it a little messy in the end but rattled off their second straight win in the Regional four-day championship when they defeated Windward Island Volcanoes by seven wickets inside three days here yesterday.

In light of the ongoing issue between the Lamaha Gardens Community Cooperative Society Inc.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Jason Holder stumbled across success earlier than most.

The rivalry between the country’s top two softball cricket teams is set to continue today when Floodlights and Regal Masters meet in the final of the Masters category of the seventh annual Guyana Softball Cup tournament following semi-finals wins yesterday.

The Guyana Court of Appeal has commenced hearing arguments from Gary Moses, who is appealing his death sentence for the 1993 murder of Leila Barrow, who was found strangled at her David Street, Kitty residence.

Guyana’s top rifle shooters Lennox Braithwaite and Mahendra Persaud were outstanding on day one of the Commonwealth Shooting Federation (CSF) rifle shooting championships along the Gold Coast of Australia.

The Guyana Swine Producers Cooperative Society Limited has denied recent allegations that it was involved in “piglet fraud,” as was claimed by a recent letter writer.

Three pump attendants attached to the Shell Service Station at McDoom, East Bank Demerara, were on Friday evening robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash by a lone gunman.

(The Sports Xchange) – LeBron James had the second-highest scoring performance of his career with 57 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 130-122 win over the Washington Wizards on Friday night.

A contract for $271 million has been awarded for the construction of a business incubator at the Lethem Industrial Estate in Region Nine.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, CMC – Head coach, Stuart Law has lauded the determination of the West Indies seam attack on the flat track at Queens Sports Club and has urged authorities here to improve the standard of their pitches in order to aid the development of the Zimbabwe side.

Back in operation: Employees of the city’s Solid Waste Department removing refuse on Robb Street yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies A’s hopes of levelling the three-match one-day series against Sri Lanka A were scuppered as wet conditions, resulting from rain, wrecked the second one-dayer at Sabina Park here Friday night.

President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI),  Deodat Indar, recently attended the Havana Internal Fair (FIHAV) 35 in Havana, Cuba, where a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the GCCI and Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO).

The numbers are in. Sixty-three of the Caribbean’s best road runners will compete in the second leg of the South American 10k Classic today on the streets of Georgetown.

The Ministry of Public Health will have a new head office built at a cost of $365m.

For the past two years when the calendar flips to November, health and fitness enthusiasts circle the dates for the Guyana and Trinidad Mutual (GTM) Health and Fitness Expo.

West Ruimveldt will oppose Marian Academy in the final of the Courts Guyana Incorporated, Pee Wee Football tournament following semi-final wins yesterday over Sophia and Enterprise respectively at the Thirst Park ground.

The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is set to complete ongoing projects to improve water services in the Ann’s Grove/Clonbrook areas on the East Coast of Demerara before Christmas this year.

On November 11, the University of Guyana’s (UG) 51st Convocation will be held at the Turkeyen campus where the University will celebrate the accomplishments of about 1800 students, and for the first time in the history of the university the certificated, diplomas and degrees will be awarded at two ceremonies.

SYLHET, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies Twenty20 star Andre Fletcher helped raise the curtain on the 2017 edition of the Bangladesh Premier League in style when he stroked a handsome half-century to steer Sylhet Sixers to a comfortable victory here yesterday.

First Lady, Sandra Granger, along with several Ministers of Government, travelled last month to Brazil on a Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO/UN) mission to learn and exchange views on experiences in sustainable school feeding.

Blairmont Cricket Club, behind Most Valuable Player Zainul Ramsammy will look to defeat city side Georgetown Cricket Club when the two sides meet today at the Demerara Cricket Club ground in the final of the Well Teen, Trophy Stall, Nauth Motor Spares and Tropical Springs Under-13 final.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned yesterday saying he believed there was an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of sowing strife in the Arab world.

Dear Editor, As representatives of  liberal democracies, I expect that the US Ambassador, Mr Perry Holloway, the UK High Commissioner, Mr Greg Quinn and Mrs Lilian Chatterjee, Canadian High Commissioner have an interest in defending Guyana’s fledgling democracy.

The qualifying round for the 2017 Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Zone has been rescheduled to November 17th with the deadline for the submission of registration forms  ending November 16th.

Some of the workers gathered for the meeting

Dear Editor, In short, out of the teaching service came the public service and they are both indispensable to each other.

Two smart health centres have been designed and will be constructed in Carlton Hall Village in Mahaicony and Mon Choisi Village in West Berbice.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort offered to post $12 million in real estate and life insurance assets and to limit his travel in a bid to avoid continued house arrest, according to court documents filed yesterday.

              Goats taking an afternoon stroll along the beach in Cullen, Essequibo (Photo by Joanna Dhanraj)

Dear Editor, On Thursday September 30, 2017 as I travelled along Vlissengen Road in a taxi, I noticed a dead dog bloated on the parapet alongside Camp Ayanganna and in the vicinity of David and Pike Streets, Kitty.

(Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Anthony Garcia is not totally surprised at reports the University of T&T (UTT) is facing financial constraints and will not be able to operate beyond January 2018.

Rain had the final say on match-day two of the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) 2017/2018 senior league washing out the scheduled doubleheader at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden.

Workers from City Hall’s Solid Waste Department yesterday removing garbage that had piled up in front of the Police Consumers Co-operative Society building on Robb Street.

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman attended the New Petroleum Producers Group Annual Meeting in Suriname from October 15-20, along with representatives from the oil and gas institutions and agencies of Suriname, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

(Reuters) – George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush did not vote for fellow Republican Donald Trump last year, says the author of a new book on the 41st and 43rd U.S.

“I grow up on the market, since I was a child.

Horse racing action continues today at the Budhan’s Memorial Turf Club with the staging of a grand six-race card at the Club’s NO.66 Village track on the Corentyne.

Dear Editor, From misjudgment to misled…to a senior moment….what’s next? The fundamental question is can the tangled web be unravelled?

Nobody familiar with how events have unfolded in Guyana in recent times would have been altogether surprised by the raucous heckling from the placard-bearing ranks of the PPP/C in Parliament on Thursday.

My father died twenty years ago at the age of 89.

Local marmalade: The Kuru Kuru Farmers and Livestock Association exhibited marmalade at the Uncapped agro-processing expo last week.

KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has detained four current ministers as part of its anti-corruption campaign, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV reported on Sunday.

Political tensions in Guyana took a turn for the worse over the past two weeks.

Anyone who writes will attest that one direction leads to another. 

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelans heaving under an unprecedented economic meltdown know little about the finer points of foreign debt negotiations, but long for anything that would put more food on their plate and slow the world’s highest inflation.

General overview More often than not when one thinks about a tourist area, blue waters, white sandy beaches and surf boards are things that come to mind.

The Demerara Harbour Bridge on Thursday morning resumed operations for the passage of marine traffic after a faulty winch was repaired.

Most of the times when we think of spareribs, we think of seasoned meat cooking low and slow over smoldering coals or wood fire in the style of barbecue.

Ever since the 1960s, the Candidates chess matches and subsequently the chess tournaments, have been recognized as definitive and contentious battles.

  If you’re lifting heavy, it’s going to take a toll on your muscles.

In a few days’ time, CARICOM’s Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will meet.

Creative Writing in Guyana has a long history, though the formal and certified training in it is very short.

Marvel of Peru or Mirabilis commonly called Four O’ Clock flowers originated in Peru and is native to tropical South America.

Introduction Last week’s column had raised the conundrum: What next? Given that, I am advising against state investment in oil refining therefore, what other major options I am recommending for realizing the substantial potential of Guyana’s recent petroleum finds.

The black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis) is a mainly South American hummingbird species. The male has glossy bright green upperparts.

The Ministry of Social Protection’s Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) has launched a Mentorship Programme, as part of its 2017 National Foster Care Month activities, to provide support for children who will be aging-out of the formal care system.