Daily Archive: Friday, April 27, 2018

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish pop icons ABBA will release their first new music for 35 years with two new songs set for broadcast in December, the quartet said on Friday.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian sanctions-hit businessman Oleg Deripaska has agreed in principle to reduce his stake in Russia’s En+ Group, which manages his aluminium and hydropower assets, to less than 50 percent, the company said in a statement today.

These photos were taken today at the refurbished Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri during a tour organised for ministers and the media by the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

After a string of successes, ExxonMobil’s latest well effort has come up dry.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia’s Rusal will be forced to quit the global aluminium market and focus on domestic consumers if the U.S.

Guyana last night moved closer to abolishing wandering and truancy as crimes with the unanimous passage of the landmark Juvenile Justice Bill, which will see significant reforms in the way juvenile offenders are treated by law enforcement and the judiciary.

Nigel Glasgow, the Good Intent, West Bank Demerara man who allegedly strangled his wife on Wednesday morning before ingesting a poisonous substance and slitting his throat, succumbed several hours after.

A porter was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of Shawnette Savory, who went missing nearly two years ago.

Trevone Anthony Giles was yesterday morning sentenced to 25 years behind bars for the rape of a 15-year-old girl, whom he lured to his house, after pretending that he was a doctor.

The Parliamentary Committee of Appointments has nominated four retired Assistant Police  Commissioners to sit on the Police Service Commission.

After nearly two years of work the Special Select Committee on the Cybercrime Bill of 2016 has submitted its  report to the National Assembly but while members of the committee from both sides of the house have found the final bill acceptable concern has been raised over its impact on free speech.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Test all-rounder Raymon Reifer and West Indies limited overs speedster Keemo Paul are among 10 players named by Cricket West Indies to be part of a fast bowing camp starting here next Monday.

A new Guyana Defence Force (GDF) campaign to recruit prospective officers is being seen as discriminatory as only male candidates are being invited to apply.

Defending champion Dave and Celina’s All-Stars, High Rollers and Swag Entertainment secured their berths in the knockout round, when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship continued on Wednesday.

As expected, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has struck out private criminal charges which were brought earlier this week by PPP/C MPs against Finance Minister Winston Jordan,  Public Infrastructure Minister, David Patterson and Public Service Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine.

Kevlon Anderson’s five-wicket haul helped Berbice cement their dominance with a five-wicket win over Essequibo in the final round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Hand In Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Inter-County Under-19 50 overs competition at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo yesterday.

(Reuters) – United States president Donald Trump yesterday tweeted his support for the North American bid for the 2026 soccer World Cup and issued a veiled threat to nations that might oppose it.

Although the University of Guyana’s administration had registered through the media its intent to move to paid parking, students who turned up to campus yesterday, were surprised by a notice informing that wheel locks were “in use”.

A man and his wife, who police say were found with a quantity of ecstasy, were yesterday both granted their release on bail after they denied a drug trafficking charge.

The inaugural I-Cool ‘Super-8’ One Day-Street Football Championship, will kick-off tomorrow at the Sparta Boss Tarmac.

Totaram Jaichand, the East Coast Demerara auto dealer who was attacked and beaten on Sunday evening by a group of men, remains in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, after suffering multiple injuries, including a fractured skull.

(Reuters) – Jose Mourinho is satisfied with what he has achieved as the manager of Manchester United and said the Premier League club was not prepared for success when he took over in 2016.

The PPP yesterday said that the manner in which a boat held with undeclared fuel is being handled is unacceptable and points to ties between the principals of the vessel and the government.

For Guyanese writer Imam Baksh, the greatest reward for writing is being read and for the second time in four years his work is guaranteed an audience.

HYDERABAD, India,  CMC – Superstar opener Chris Gayle failed for the first time this season as his Kings XI Punjab slumped to a 13-run defeat to Sunrisers Hyderbad to miss out on the chance to take sole possession of the lead in the Indian Premier League here Thursday.

The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was yesterday denied its application to have Justice Gino Persaud set aside a ruling he had previously made to return a community playground to Bel Air Park residents for recreational purposes and no other.

KOLKATA, India, (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) has asked an internal panel to suggest harsher punishment for ball-tampering and other misbehaviour by players in its bid to establish a “culture of respect”, chief executive Dave Richardson said yesterday.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah sent Anfield into raptures with his dazzling display and two goals in the 5-2 demolition of AS Roma in the Champions League semi-final first leg and was also the name on everybody’s lips back in his home country of Egypt.

Trumpeting the clinching of a deal with the Hard Rock Café franchise, MovieTowne Guyana is promising hundreds of jobs when the US$45m state-of-the-art Cineplex opens sometime this year.

The Police Office of Professional Responsibility has launched an investigation into the death of a prisoner, who committed suicide while in police custody on Wednesday.

(ICC) On the final day of a week of ICC meetings in Kolkata, the ICC Board yesterday gave the green light to all Twenty20 matches between Members being awarded international status along with plans to introduce global rankings in the format.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England’s Football Association is in negotiations to sell Wembley Stadium, the home of the national soccer team, to U.S.

Despite the discontinuation of the burning of amalgamated gold at the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) laboratory on Brickdam, Georgetown over health concerns, Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) workers have not resumed work at their adjoining offices and their union says that they will remain off the job until a satisfactory cleanup is done.

(Reuters) – Hosts England will begin their quest for a maiden 50-overs World Cup title against perennial under-achievers South Africa on May 30 next year with Lord’s staging the final on July 14, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced yesterday.

A playground which is situated between Kaikan Street and Well Road in North Ruimveldt has been restored and upgraded by University of Guyana Public Management students.

BAKU,  (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton turned talk of road rage into respect yesterday when asked on his return to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix about last year’s headline-grabbing clash with Formula One rival Sebastian Vettel.

Dear Editor, Large oil spill in Guyana ‘very unlikely statistically’-Esso’s Henson I refer to the article at caption,published in Wednesday’s, Stabroek News, and wish to point out that ‘statistics involves the analysis of the frequency of past events’. 

Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin has conceded that Guyana must take full responsibility for the circumstances that led the country’s loss of its multi-million-dollar United States catfish market but says that government will work towards satisfying the conditionalities necessary for that market to be regained.

Prospects for transforming Essequibo into a key tourist hub are likely to be significantly enhanced with the completion of the $89 million Supenaam Waterfront Development Project, the centerpiece of which is expected to be the remake of the existing stelling facility to house a range of modern conveniences.

Dear Editor, It was with utter disappointment I read a letter published in the April 26, 2018 editions of the daily newspapers, penned by Member of Parliament, Mr Juan Edghill, in regard to today’s (April 27) planned parliamentary tour of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The IAAF confirmed a new hyperandrogenism rule on Thursday that could prevent South African runner Caster Semenya from competing in 800m and 1500m races.

Dear Editor, Taxpayers are required to file their tax returns by the statutory date of April 30.

(Reuters) – Anthony Joshua is unconvinced American Deontay Wilder’s team have the $50 million that they are offering for a title unification bout, the British boxer’s promoter Eddie Hearn has said.

Even as Guyana persists in what, over the years, has been a far from successful effort to stave off the proliferation of fake food imports resulting from illegal relabelling and transactions involving the lucrative importation of ‘cut price’ fake foods, mostly from parts of Asia, reports from Africa, particularly, suggest that others, as well, are paying a high price for their failure to fend off illegal fake food imports.

Dear Editor, The current primitive, outdated and repressive suicide law is wasting space in the law books of Guyana and we need to get rid of it.

When Stabroek Business met with Sarran Lallbachan at his Charity office on Saturday he was ‘sitting in’ for his father, Kumar who he told us is currently out of Guyana.

(Field Level Media) Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James had a game-saving block followed by a game-winning three-pointer on Wednesday night to beat the Indiana Pacers.

Dear Editor, It seems as if the blundering by the Attorney General’s Chambers will cost the government money.

LONDON,  CMC – None of West Indies’ fixtures in the upcoming ICC World Cup will be staged in London but captain Jason Holder says that has further strengthened the side’s resolve to reach the final at Lord’s.

Having seemingly set its sights firmly on creating an enhanced level of local market acceptance for the local manufacturing sector, the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) was this week finalizing arrangements for the staging of UncappeD 11, the second of what is envisaged as a series of marketing initiatives aimed at popularizing locally manufactured products.

Dear Editor, One cannot help wondering about the underlying objective(s) of Mr E B John’s letter in Wednesday’s edition of Stabroek News titled: `Harold Davis commissioned heritage projects for the sugar industry’.

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate the Drainage and Irrigation Department and the Regional Democratic Council of Anna Regina for constructing a very important revetment at Cotton Field, old road.

LONDON, CMC – Cricket World Cup managing director, Steve Elworthy, says every effort was made to ensure the 10 participating teams were guaranteed “home crowds”, during next year’s showpiece.

No matter how diligently we searched during our photographer’s visit to the Stabroek Market last week, we could find no evidence of any vegetable on sale at a unit price of above $100.00.

Quick thinking by the Region Three administration averted a major flood at Hubu on the East Bank Essequibo on Tuesday.

With the country’s major food outlets now – perhaps more than ever before – swamped with an overabundance of regional and extra-regional cereals and porridge preparations, the Ministry of Agriculture says that the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Robb and Alexander streets Guyana Shop is being pressed into service in an effort to accelerate the popularization of similar local foods.

SOCOPO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – It is mid-morning on a weekday yet all that can be heard in the once-bustling corridors of the Orlando Garcia state primary school is the swish of palm trees outside in the wind.

Women leaders in Region Three are undergoing leadership training, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.

The   Government   of   Guyana   is   currently   working   to   develop   a Secured   Transaction    Framework (STF) to enhance the credit environment in Guyana.

Dear Editor, I have time and again argued in several letters to the press that the current ‘winner takes all’ model of governance has, over the decades, failed to advance the process of national reconciliation and social cohesion.

Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday April 26, 2018 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Sweden’s record goalscorer Zlatan Ibrahimovic will not be coming out of international retirement to represent the Nordic nation at the World Cup finals in Russia, the country’s FA has said in a statement.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The leaders of North and South Korea embraced today after pledging to work for the “complete denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula”, on a day of smiles and handshakes at the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation andpublished by Stabroek Business as a public service)

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 770’s trading results showed consideration of $2,440,160 from 35,892 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 769’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,503,800 from 5,000 shares traded in 2 transactions.

A column by Transparency Institute Guyana Inc Recently, the number and prominence of foreign analysts who have corroborated the early view expressed by local analysts have increased.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) marks April 28 globally as Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) day, promoting the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases.

`I’m a Berbician’ I’m offering most brief commentary on the lead caption about national registration for electoral purposes because it is easy for me to predict what a sensitive and contentious national issue this will soon become.

KUANTAN, Malaysia,  (Reuters) – When Malaysia’s political parties unfurled their election flags and banners this month, Prime Minister Najib Razak’s critics sniggered on social media that the manufacturer named on banners of his ruling coalition was Chinese.

NORRISTOWN, Pa.,  (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby was convicted yesterday of drugging and sexually assaulting a onetime friend in 2004, marking the first such conviction of a celebrity since the #MeToo movement that has brought down rich and powerful men for their treatment of women.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights yesterday began hearing the first case of alleged state-led human rights violations in Mexico to be brought since the country militarized its battle against violent drug cartels over a decade ago.

Like a recurring decimal the ‘grow more food’ clarion call has, intermittently, resonated across the region as though repetition could transform the vocalizing of the wish into a self-fulfilling prophesy.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States lifted sanctions on Thursday on Colombian soccer team Envigado Futbol Club S.A.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC coalition government campaign platform was racial unity and a promise that the coalition would ensure each and every Guyanese would not be discriminated against.