Daily Archive: Friday, May 4, 2018

NEW YORK/TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration said today it will end temporary protections for immigrants in the United States from Honduras on Jan.

By an Order dated April 25th, 2018, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has fined the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) 5% of the total value of the dividend payable to the company’s shareholders for the year 2017.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzanian bloggers and rights activists won a temporary court injunction today against a government order to register their online platforms that raised concern about a crackdown on free speech.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cricket West Indies chief executive, Johnny Grave, has warned there will be no immediate return to the international side for Darren Bravo, after the left-hander thrice rejected offers to end his exile from the senior squad.

A second piracy attack on a fishing boat in Suriname waters, nearly a week after the first, which left 16 fishermen missing, has resulted in the death of Guyanese fisherman Hardeo Beechan, Beechan, called Ganesh, 32, of Woodley Park, West Coast Berbice, was reportedly shot and beaten before being thrown overboard.

Former West Indies skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan came out swinging against President of Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), Fizul Bacchus for casting culpability on West Indian fast bowler Ronsford Beaton for being called for throwing by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The Black Bush Polder man who drove the truck in the gruesome Corentyne accident which left 12 persons dead in 2010 was yesterday found guilty on all 12 counts of causing death by dangerous driving at the  High Court in Berbice.

Cavaliers 128 Raptors 110 Field Level Media: LeBron James recorded 43 points, 14 assists and eight rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers made it two straight victories in Toronto with a 128-110 triumph over the Raptors on Thursday night in the Eastern Conference semifinals at Air Canada Centre.

Despite participating at the CONCACAF Beach Football Qualifiers from February 20th-26th 2017 in the Bahamas, the Guyana Men’s National Beach Football Team, is yet to receive their remunerations from the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).

The Guyana Bar Association (GBA) has written Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings-Edwards objecting to joint training of judges and prosecutors, arguing that it could have the appearance that the judiciary is taking directions from the executive.

Last Sunday’s UncappeD Marketplace event marked another potentially key phase in the protracted search for a place of prominence in the country’s economic ‘sun’ for the agro processing sector.

The role of a Director in governance is very important as organisations are led from the top.

Cycling action returns to the Ancient County of Berbice tomorrow, with the staging of a 60-mile road race in observance of Indian Arrival Day.

A fisherman who was dumped overboard with injuries was miraculously found alive yesterday by his fellow fisher folk, who were a part of the search underway for the missing men in the recent horrific piracy attack.

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will stage the Annual Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis National Novices championships from tonight at the National Gymnasium.

The case of a teenaged boy being incarcerated for seven years on a murder charge, only to be released because of a lack of evidence, has underscored the need for the provision of free legal representation to children.

Yonette McPherson typifies the dogged determination of the thousands of Guyanese comprising the agro-processing community, whose pursuits are shaped, mostly, by a necessity to make a living that is both honest and adequate.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) will press its governing coalition partner,  A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) for an accord on local government elections when the two groups meet next week.

All roads will lead to the Vergenoegen Sports Club ground tonight, when Uitvlugt face-off with Eagles in the final of the inaugural Big Yard Auto Sale ‘West Side Super 4’ Knockout Championship from 21:00hrs.

By Paul Randall I was leaving Guyana a few days ago, when I read a copy of the Guybiz Inc.

The local sports fraternity is in mourning following the passing of Patrick ‘Pat’ Holder, one of Guyana’s most renowned sport figures.

In order to win the fight against money laundering, terrorism and violent extremism, Caribbean states must work together to ensure there is a strong criminal justice system which is up-to-date and equipped with the necessary resources, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland said yesterday.

It was Guyana’s abundant supply of a range of tropical fruit and their value-added potential that largely influenced the decision by vintner, Warren Douglas to part company with the United States and return home.

A Kuru Kururu man was yesterday granted $1.5 million bail, after he was charged with causing the death of 46-year-old porter Dexter Conway, who was struck down in February along the Kuru Kururu Public Road while examining his truck.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela said yesterday it would take over the country’s leading private bank Banesco for 90 days and announced the arrest of 11 top executives for “attacks” against the country’s rapidly depreciating bolivar currency.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Newly appointed Australia Coach Justin Langer will charge his players with winning back the “respect” of the cricket world after a ball-tampering scandal left the team’s reputation in ruins.

At least thrice monthly, the local company, Biso Investments exports shipments of fresh fruit and vegetables, including pineapple, watermelon, ground provision, and pumpkin to Barbados under an arrangement with two supermarkets on the CARICOM island.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants foreign airports to tighten screening of U.S.-bound

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Sri Lanka are in danger of losing opener Dimuth Karunaratne for their three-Test tour of the Caribbean next month, after he fractured a finger in practice on Wednesday.

A miner was yesterday fined and sentenced to three years in jail, after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of 25 grammes of cannabis.

Dear Editor, I find the report by Mr. Raphael Trotman, leader of the key coalition party Alliance For Change (AFC) that his party will not support the Sedition Clause (clause 18) in the Cybercrime Bill of 2016 most astonishing.

Dear Editor, Mere weeks now the residents of Cummings Lodge have been enjoying the benefits of a recently resurfaced main road.

Guyana is by no means the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country that is gearing itself to cash in on the current high global demand for coconuts.

Editors and other media managers need to stand up to those in authority and influence those who seek to impose restrictions on freedom of expression because of their dislike of the opinions of others, says Guyana Press Association (GPA) President Nazima Raghubir.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa haunted Arsenal again by firing his side to a 1-0 win in Thursday’s Europa League semi-final second leg to send the Spaniards into the final and deny Arsene Wenger a dream end to his long reign as Arsenal coach.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian investigators conducted one of their largest operations against graft ever yesterday, targeting a money laundering ring linked to powerful politicians and businessmen that moved $1 billion through offshore accounts in 52 countries.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ foreign reserves problem is so serious that Government is seeking a US$60 million to US$70 million bail-out from the private sector.

COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Europe’s top football leagues are in “firm opposition” to FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plans for two new international tournaments, the body representing them said on Thursday.

Dear Editor, After considerable delay and with great reluctance, the Granger Administration conceded that a sum of US$18 million was paid by Exxon/Esso as a so-called “signing bonus” and this was reflected in Clause 33 of the secret 2016 Petroleum Agreement although this fact was resolutely denied when first articulated in the press.

(Trinidad Express) Gunmen fired upon a group of people at Petit Valley yesterday and killed two men.

Stock market updates

The cleaning and sanitising of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) and its environs, to rid the area of mercury residue, is expected to start before the end of the week, Head of the Guyana Civil Servants and General Workers Union (GCS&GWU) says.

NAIROBI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Activists hailed a Kenyan court for ordering that almost 5,000 fishermen at a 14th century World Heritage Site receive millions in compensation for the loss of traditional fishing rights due to the construction of a major port.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s anti-graft body arrested President Maithripala Sirisena’s chief of staff and another state official yesterday in the act of accepting a bribe, officials said.

The preliminary inquiry into the charge against city policeman Gregory Bascom, who is accused of shooting and killing vendor Marlon Fredericks in January, commenced yesterday before a city magistrate.

(Barbados Nation) Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes says the Barbados economy contracted in the first quarter of this year.

As a service to Guyana’s rice industry the Stabroek Business has agreed to publish,weekly, beginning with this issue, prices paid to farmers supplying paddy to Mills in the various regions of Guyana

Dear Editor, As one who must commute, more often than not, by taxi, SN’s editorial of Sunday 29 April, rings a troublingly familiar bell, except perhaps for those who should be responsible for what is dangerously described as ‘Road Safety’.

(Reuters) – Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp has said his team will be “on fire” for the Champions League final in Kiev as they look to stop an experience Real Madrid side from winning a third consecutive European title.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court yesterday ruled to restrict federal lawmakers’ protection from prosecution, a move hailed by some experts as a blow to impunity for the powerful, but a decision that may open new avenues for politicians to stall cases.

The police photographer assigned to document the post-mortem examination on the body of murdered school teacher Kescia Branche, was the first witness to be called at the start of the Preliminary Inquiry into the murder charge, held yesterday.

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

LONDON, CMC – Indian stars Hardik Pandya and Dinesh Karthik have been named in the ICC World XI for the Twenty20 International against West Indies later this month at Lord’s.

Dear Editor, The attempts by the Alliance For Change (AFC) to assert some kind of relevance in Guyana’s political arena is such an abysmal failure that it forces rational thinking persons to question the clear lack of drive behind that effort. 

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled television’s Bill Cosby and Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski yesterday as the Academy Awards presenter responded to sexual misconduct allegations roiling Hollywood.

The Ministry of Public Health yesterday introduced seven public service announcement (PSA) videos to educate the public on the signs of a heart attack and treatment available at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday his lawyer Michael Cohen did not use presidential campaign funds to pay Stormy Daniels as part of a contract he said was aimed at stopping the adult-film star from making “false and extortionist accusations” about an affair.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday May 03, 2018

It would be a very useful study indeed to research the amount of time the average person in Guyana spends standing in line to access goods and services.

KOLKATA, India, CMC – Man-of-the-Match Sunil Narine grabbed a brace of wickets and then struck a timely cameo to help Kolkata Knight Riders dispose of West Indies counterpart Dwayne Bravo’s Chennai Super Kings by six wickets in the Indian Premier League here Thursday.

Dear Editor, The Attorney General’s  Chambers letter in yesterday’s SN `Attorney General’s Chambers has maintained a respectable success rate in the local courts’  is filled with lies, half-truths and innuendos, apart from being quite libellous to me.

Introduction Column 41 which appeared two weeks ago looked at the paltry share capital of the three foreign oil companies which signed the 2016 Petroleum Agreement for the Stabroek Block.

It really won’t matter— significantly – if any cynicism or sarcasm is detected as I attempt today to actually congratulate His Excellency on specific policy statements and actual programmes.

With high unemployment – particularly in the non-coastal areas of Guyana being one of the national challenges which we have been unable to sufficiently roll back, news of the planned commencement of operations of Guyana Manganese In.

(Trinidad Express) A coconut vendor on his way home after work was shot dead on Wednesday.