Daily Archive: Monday, January 15, 2018

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – European Union officials have proposed removing eight jurisdictions from the blacklist of tax havens the bloc adopted in December, in what critics may see as a blow to its campaign against tax avoidance.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England cricketer Ben Stokes has been charged with affray following an incident in the city of Bristol last September, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) Robbers shot dead a security guard at a Church’s Chicken outlet at the newly opened O’Meara Plaza in Arima on Saturday night after they became enraged that they were unable to open the cash register.

Police detectives have been sent to the Pomeroon River area after two men were shot dead  yesterday afternoon.

  A mentally-challenged vendor was yesterday fatally shot in his back by a city lance corporal as he allegedly attempted to flee custody, a day after he was in a scuffle with a city constable during which both men suffered injuries and a shot was fired.

A Lance Corporal from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is in police custody and has confessed to robbing a Kitty resident of over $5.5M in cash and other valuables, the police said.

The parting between the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) and its recently hired Trinidadian Chief Executive Officer, Larry Nath came through a mutual understanding and following questions that had been raised here over the appointment, sources close to the process says.

Guyana needs a new political party which will seek the support of the groups that the Alliance for Change (AFC) has disappointed, according to commentator Ralph Ramkarran.

A hire car driver was last night around 8.30 placed under arrest after he fatally struck a cyclist along the Number 71 Village Public Road.

A Guyanese of “Brazilian heritage with strong connections”, Jeanne Disarz, is seeking to establish an Integrated Agriculture Venture which would see among other things the cultivation of corn and soybean in the North Rupununi, Region 9.

Following a protest by BK International to the Public Procurement Commission (PPC)  on the award of the $3.5B Mazaruni Prison contract to a joint venture, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan says that he will be looking into the concerns raised to determine if there were any breaches in the process.

Daniel Williams along with athletes from the Running Brave Athletic Club (RBAC) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) were some of the star performers of the first Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Development Meet for the 2018 season yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Tagenarine Chanderpaul completed his maiden first-class hundred, but newly-crowned champions Guyana Jaguars had to settle for a draw against Barbados Pride in the Regional 4-Day Championship yesterday here.

Dear Editor, ExxonMobil is not the enemy and should not be perceived or treated as such simply for seeking and obtaining a very good deal in the contract re-negotiated with the Granger-led government as agents of the Guyanese people since as a company its primary purpose is to maximize shareholder value.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge says that complaints by Director of Public Information, Imran Khan on his Facebook page about an Indian conference for MPs of Indian origin do not augur well for diplomatic relations between Georgetown and New Delhi.

Following several requests, City Hall has been able to secure a meeting tomorrow at ExxonMobil’s country headquarters.

Following a historic year for the discipline of hockey in 2017, Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) President and ardent sports enthusiast Philip Fernandes, spoke to Stabroek Sports, during an exclusive interview on the accomplishments and challenges faced during 2017, and what will be the focus for 2018.

Dear Editor, The urge to write again, on the onslaught on the sugar workers is visceral. 

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump insisted yesterday “I’m not a racist” in response to reports that he had described immigrants from Haiti and African countries as coming from “shithole countries.”

Dear Editor, After much spirited public campaigning and equally tense debates, the US House of Representatives passed the bill on August 2, 1983, followed by the US Senate on October 19, 1983, designating the third Monday of January a federal holiday in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.

PRETORIA, (Reuters) – Young South African seamer Lungi Ngidi took his first test wicket but India captain Virat Kohli led the resistance for the tourists as they reached 183 for five at the close of day two of the second test in Pretoria yesterday.

Issues with the output of X-ray images at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) have resulted in patients having to seek X-ray services at private facilities.

(Reuters) – Hawaii apparently did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a false emergency alert about a missile attack that panicked residents for more than a half-hour before it was withdrawn, a federal official said yesterday.

The Woodlands Hospital Pathology Laboratory and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Medical Laboratory were both certified last Wednesday by the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) under its Laboratory Certification Programme.

Dear Editor, After reading an article in the Sunday Stabroek `Fly Jamaica hoping to clear backlog today’ and seeing the height of arrogance coming from Fly Jamaica’s CEO, I simply had to pen this letter to let the public know of the nightmares of travelling with this airline.

Construction worker Lloyd Sadloo was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge that he robbed five persons of a little over $2.4 million in an armed robbery attack on New Year’s Eve.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Opener Jason Roy smashed England’s highest individual score in one-day internationals to guide his side to a comfortable five-wicket victory against Australia in the opening match of the series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) Three men were killed in Manzanilla, and Fyzabad and Arima on Saturday night.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force suffered their third straight defeat in the Regional Four-Day Championship, when they collapsed to a heavy innings and 38-run defeat to Windward Islands Volcanoes here yesterday.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Members of Venezuela’s leftist government and opposition leaders concluded a round of talks in the Dominican Republic on Saturday, failing to reach a deal to address the country’s political and economic crisis.

Dear Editor, Crime and security are making the rounds in the media recently. 

The trial of former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Private Abiola Jacobs, who is charged with the murder of her ex-boyfriend’s mother, has commenced before Justice James Bovell-Drakes at the High Court in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, The huge oil and gas find has the potential to leapfrog the country from low income to high income status if properly managed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) When president of the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica Everton Hannam chose Fly Jamaica Airline to take him to Guyana for his annual end-of-year vacation, he could not guess the ordeal he would face.

(Reuters) – Hawaii apparently did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent a false emergency alert about a missile attack that panicked residents for more than a half-hour before it was withdrawn, a federal official said yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  – Leg-spinner Damion Jacobs snatched a career-best 12-wicket haul as Jamaica Scorpions needed just an hour to dispose of Leeward Islands Hurricanes by 57 runs in their ninth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship here yesterday.

Photographs of the scene of the accident that claimed the life of Julian Leitch were accepted as evidence at the ongoing trial of attorney Keisha Chase on Wednesday.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A World Bank economist in charge of the lender’s annual competitiveness rankings denied accusations that the reports treated Chile unfairly for several years, according to an interview with the El Mercurio newspaper published yesterday.

Dear Editor, Governments and diplomats throughout Africa and the Global South continue to express their outrage and disgust at Donald Trump’s most recent ignorant and racist diatribe, in which he suggested that the US should focus its immigrant entry policy on countries such as Norway, rather than El Salvador, Haiti and the countries of the African continent, which he actually described as “shithole countries”.

HOBART, Tasmania, CMC – Barbados and West Indies teenaged batting star, Hayley Matthews, gathered her highest score this season but Hobart Hurricanes’ wretched, winless run continued with a 10-wicket defeat to Melbourne Renegades on Sunday.

(Jamaica Observer) Fear. That’s what has forced the cancellation of plans to hold a funeral service for slain St Andrew businessman Dennis Ramdial in Jamaica.

Last week, we began to highlight the key findings contained in the IMF report entitled “Guyana: A reform Agenda for Petroleum Taxation and Revenue Manage-ment” dated November 2017.

Aside from the injustice of payment in two stages, the controversy surrounding severance for thousands of sugar workers has crystallised yet again the incoherence in the APNU+AFC government on pivotal issues and the lack of decisive leadership.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Sloane Stephens became the first big casualty at this year’s Australian Open as the U.S.

By D. Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the Diaspora Column Last week, in meetings with lawmakers to discuss a bipartisan deal addressing immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti and several African nations, US president Donald Trump commented (in remarks later verified by several present) “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” 

(Jamaica Gleaner) The country’s murder rate continues to spiral as police figures show 61 murders have been committed since the start of the year.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Four former senior Indian judges yesterday released a letter in support of a group of Supreme Court judges who on Friday openly criticised the way the top court was functioning.

Dear Editor, I am a staunch supporter of the Peoples’ National Congress and I will support my party if they win, draw, or lose; that is how much I love my party and its leadership.