Daily Archive: Sunday, April 15, 2018

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders met yesterday with United States Vice President, Mike Pence, on the margins of the final day of the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru.

(Barbados Nation) The usual hustle and bustle of a Saturday afternoon in Bridgetown came to a standstill yesterday following the brutal murder of a 36-year-old nail technician and mother of two.

Deep within Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara and three villages before the conservancy dam is the tiny village of Soesdyke, flanked by Endeavour and Good Land.

In last week’s column I wrote about a pervasive anxiety about the state of things in general which currently focuses on the seemingly unstoppable spread of criminal activity and violent crime in society.

Rejecting suggestions of any conflict of interest because he was once a director of a locally-registered oil company, the Deputy Director of the Petroleum Directorate Nicholas Chuck-A-Sang says qualified Guyanese in the sector should be encouraged to serve their homeland without concerns that they will be influenced by their former employers.

On Wednesday last the public was treated to a brilliant and expansive lecture by the former Chancellor (ag) of the Judiciary and now Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence at the University of Guyana, Carl Singh.

Attorney General Basil Williams SC on Friday sounded a warning to both the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), saying that they need to secure convictions as they are critical to showing the effectiveness of measures Guyana has taken to combat money laundering.

Saying that the misconduct charges filed against former Finance Minister Ashni Singh and former head of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Winston Brassington cannot hold up in court, attorney Anil Nandlall has warned that lawsuits will be filed over the character damage that has been done.

I recently submitted a So it go column entitled ‘How come?’

“My father put me out and now he say he will tek back me son, but he don’t want me back at the house.

A fire, suspected to be an act of arson, gutted the White Castle Fish Shop at John and Hadfield Streets, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, early yesterday morning, leaving the proprietor counting millions of dollars in losses, and his common-law wife in custody as the prime suspect.

Salvia divinorum commonly called Salvia originated in Mexico and is grown throughout the world now. 

If you’re not a tea drinker, maybe you should be. But not just any tea.

A Soesdyke woman was killed on Friday afternoon, while several others were injured after the unlicensed driver of the minibus they were travelling in lost control of the vehicle along the Land of Canaan Public Road, on the East Bank of Demerara and collided with a utility pole.

Many months have passed since this column last addressed the issue of Brexit and what it may mean for the Caribbean and its long-standing relationship with the United Kingdom.

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan on Friday clarified that Professor Clive Thomas remains Chairman of the board of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) as Cabinet had deferred a decision on a new board.

Troy Doris hopped, skipped and jumped his way to a Commonwealth Games gold medal and leaped into the record books after winning the Men’s Triple Jump event yesterday in Australia.

With the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) falling short of its target for losses last year, Divisional Director of Loss Reduction Parsram Persaud has projected better results this year due to ongoing network upgrade works that have already yielded positive results.

GOLD COAST, Australia,  CMC – Veteran St Lucian jumper Levern Spencer ended her nation’s frustrating 56-year wait for a Commonwealth Games gold medal when she produced a season-best performance to win the women’s high jump here yesterday.

After the recent Court of Appeal finding that he was wrongly dismissed by the Guyana Police Force in 2009, former Police Superintendent Simon McBean has not ruled out the possibility, if asked, of returning to the institution, to which he had dedicated 17 years of his life.

A clinical spell of left-arm spin bowling from skipper Devon Lord helped guide the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) to first innings points over the Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) in the Noble House Seafoods/Georgetown Cricket Association, two-day, second-division competition at the GYO ground yesterday.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has increased its surveillance at the two local international airports but there is need for more manpower to better monitor interior locations and prepare for the expected growth of the aviation sector, according to Director-General Colonel (Ret’d) Egbert Field.

Over 40 young girls will over the next 12 weekends undergo training in coding as part of an initiative to encourage and nurture their participation in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field.

Essequibo batted with patience and intent while the Under-17 Select XI chipped away as Essequibo closed on 267-7 after 87 overs on the first day of the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board/Hand-In-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance, three-day Under-19 Inter-County competition at the Everest Cricket Club ground yesterday.

Victory Valley Royals  and Retrieve Raiders recorded contrasting secured wins, when the 5th edition of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) ‘Road to Mecca’ Club Championship, continued Friday  at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

Anthony Daniels lives on the streets and before now his meals often came from garbage bins, yet when he was asked to “stray” a dog for a fee he could not find it in his heart to follow through and instead made the dog his friend and companion.

Laurel Gittens has been confirmed as the first female Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) of the City Constabulary.

Seventeen-year-old Miguel Wong, who is currently participating at the Youth Olympics lost his lone match on day one of the qualifiers in Paraguay.

Guyanese Lennox Braithwaite and Ransford Goodluck ended  the Commonwealth Games Queen’s Prize Individual Full-bore Shooting Final without a medal but turned in sterling performances on the way to placing 18th and 24th respectively.

The 11-year-old Guyanese boy who was being prevented from writing the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination by the Trinidad and Tobago (TT) Ministry of Education because he did not have a student permit will now be allowed to do so.

Team Coco’s Jamal John out rode Deeraj Garbarran in a thrilling two-man sprint finish to cart off the spoils of the feature 35-lap event of the Universal Auto and General Supplies’ criterium programme yesterday.

A draft bill to repeal the section of the law which provides for the establishment of the Anti-Money Laundering Authority has been sent to the Parliamentary Appoint-ments Committee for comments, following which it will engage the attention of stakeholders, Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General Basil Williams SC has said.

The Linden edition of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Championships kicks  off today at the Mackenzie Bus Park Tarmac.

PARIS (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned of a humanitarian disaster in the rebel-controlled Syrian city of Idlib, which could be a next target of the Syrian army.

Following incidents of elevated mercury emissions, Executive Director of Conservation International-Guyana Dr David Singh has been appointed to lead an expert committee in the review of the operations of the Guyana Gold Board’s laboratory.

Beterverwagting (BV)/Triumph and Plaisance secured contrasting wins when the East Coast Demerara zone of the Frank Watson Memorial U15 League continued at the Golden Grove Ground yesterday.

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar on Saturday repatriated the first Rohingya family from nearly 700,000 refugees who have fled to Bangladesh, after months of fraught talks with Dhaka and amid the United Nations’ warnings that the country is not ready for their return.

Following reports that some residents of Tapakuma, Region Two, have contracted Typhoid, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has intervened to test and disinfect the community’s well.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter written by a concerned miner titled, ‘Gold Board killing the golden goose’ (KN, April 14).

Dear Editor, On Tuesday, April 10 around 11.30 am I received a facebook message and photo from Leon Andy Targoonchandrue,  Mahaicony, about a donkey that had been suffering for several days.

A recent investigation by the Region Four Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has found that part of the profit from a fundraising barbecue hosted by the Enmore/Hope Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) cannot be accounted for.

(Reuters) Klay Thompson scored a game-high 27 points and Kevin Durant chipped in with 24 yesterday afternoon as the Golden State Warriors opened defense of their NBA title with a 113-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 1 of their best-of-seven first-round Western Conference series in Oakland, Calif.

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who found fame in Hollywood with the Oscar-winning classics “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has died at the age of 86.

The former Joint Services members being sought by the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2008 Lindo Creek killings are wanted for interviews to determine if they have any relevant information for the investigation, according to legal counsel Patrice Henry.

LIMA (Reuters) – The United States urged regional leaders on Saturday to take stronger steps to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as it joined a declaration condemning the worsening humanitarian crisis and political repression in the South American nation.

(Reuters) Serge Ibaka scored 23 points, and the Toronto Raptors stared down their playoff demons with a 114-106 win over the Washington Wizards in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference series at Air Canada Centre yesterday.

Dear Editor, A packed house gathered at the Guyana High Commission in London on Tuesday 10th April to salute one of Guyana’s greatest writers, Sir Wilson Harris who died in March and will be cremated next Monday in Chelmsford, Essex.

(Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Saturday denied a media report that the special counsel investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has evidence Cohen visited Prague that year.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Opener Evin Lewis narrowly missed out on a half-century while West Indies teammate Kieron Pollard suffered the indignity of a first-ball ‘duck’ as Mumbai Indians went down by seven wickets to Delhi Daredevils, to remain bottom of the Indian Premier League with three defeats in as many matches.

That people don’t learn any lessons from the experience of others is perhaps understandable, but why they shouldn’t learn from their own experience – good as well as bad ‒ is more difficult to explain.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, excluded from the Summit of the Americas due to regional censure of his democratic record, mocked the meeting in Lima as a “complete failure” on Saturday.

Introduction Today’s column along with the next portrays selected aspects of my recent discussion of the fiscal regime in Guyana’s 2016 Production Sharing Agreement (PSA), from the perspective of basic economic principles.

The Yellow-throated Wood-pecker (Piculus flavigula) is found across much of Amazonia.

I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me and heard my cry for help, He pulled me out of a horrible pit, out of the mud and clay.

Darren McAlmont’s Woman In Law 2 played at the National Cultural Centre recently.

LIMA (Reuters) – Panama is considering building a passenger train to Costa Rica with China, a project that would require an initial investment of $5 billion, Panama’s President told Reuters in an interview, a sign of the Asian country’s growing interest in Latin America.

A total of 45 persons on Friday completed an Initial Damage Assessment course conducted by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) in association with the United States Agency for Inter-national Development’s Office of U.S.

The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) rose 0.40 percent during the second period of trading in April 2018. 

Dear Editor, All Guyana is abuzz with the news that Troy Doris won gold in the men’s Triple Jump at the Commonwealth Games.