Daily Archive: Friday, June 8, 2018

Russia Day 2018 at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kitty today.

The PPP will file an appeal against Chief Justice Roxane George’s decision today upholding the President's unilateral appointment of James Patterson as Chairman of GECOM.

Chief Justice Roxane George SC has upheld the contentious appointment of retired judge James Patterson, 84, as the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

A power surge has affected the Better Hope Water Treatment Plant, according to the Guyana Water Inc (GWI).

Police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred last night at Bee Hive, ECD during which two GRA Officers sustained gunshot injuries.

(Reuters) – U.S. celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, host of CNN’s food-and-travel-focused “Parts Unknown” television series, hanged himself in a French hotel room, CNN said today, in the second high-profile suicide of a U.S.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday questioned government’s reluctance to audit the US$460 million claim in pre-contract costs by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary and its two partners.

LGBT persons continue to face discrimination, stigmatisation and violence on an almost daily basis.

Former SWAT Unit head Motie Dookie was sent on special leave with full pay in accordance with the 1987 Public Service Rules, according to Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix.

The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York is challenging Guyanese murder accused Marcus Bisram’s attempt to have an “evidentiary hearing” on whether local witnesses in his murder case in Guyana have recanted the statements they provided to the police here.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies rattled Sri Lanka with three quick wickets in a dramatic final hour to take firm control of the opening Test, after Shane Dowrich’s second Test hundred had earlier given them the advantage on a rain-hit second day of the contest at Queen’s Park Oval.

The Arthur Chung Convention Centre was recommissioned yesterday afternoon after undergoing more than a year and a half of rehabilitative work.

Guyana’s 2018 growth rate has been revised to 3.4%, according to Finance Minister Winston Jordan.

Michael Johnson, newly appointed Head-Coach of the Golden Jaguars Senior Team has declared that he is elated to be at the helm of the programme and thinks the target of getting into the top 100 of FIFA’s rankings is possible.  Speaking at the SleepIn Hotel and Casino, on Church Street, during his presentation to the media yesterday, the English born tactician who has inked a three deal with the Guyana Football Federation, said, “Thank you so much for this opportunity.

Rose Hall champion cyclist, Beyonce Ross, 15, who was bedridden with a brain tumour which she found out on Monday was not cancerous was rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital yesterday after her condition further deteriorated.

The Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) was last week forced to undertake emergency works on the near impassable Onverwagt, West Coast Berbice main access road, finally bringing some relief to users.

Field Level Media: CLEVELAND — Kevin Durant scored 43 points, and the Golden State Warriors overcame a slow start Wednesday night to defeat the Cavaliers 110-102 in Game 3 and move to the brink of sweeping the NBA Finals.

An elderly farmer was beaten while his son was shot when bandits invaded their Canal No.

Foreign investments in sectors that significantly exploit Guyana’s non-renewable resources should, “as a matter of course,” leave behind Guyana’s significant “legacy projects” that provide some measure of meaningful compensation for the fact that what they take away are wasting resources from which the country cannot hope to benefit again, a senior private sector functionary has told the Stabroek Business.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Rafael Nadal lost his first set at the French Open since 2015 but that blip did not prevent the 10-times champion from marching into the semi-finals with a 4-6 6-3 6-2 6-2 victory over Diego Schwartzman in their rain-delayed match on Thursday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Top seed Simona Halep reached her third French Open final when she stopped hard-hitting Spaniard Garbine Muguruza in her tracks with a 6-1 6-4 semi-final victory on Thursday.

An investigation is ongoing into claims of fraud at the Matthews Ridge Nursery School in the North West District, in connection with money allocated for sewing school uniforms.

Having long established itself as a significant contributor to tertiary education in Guyana, the Critchlow Labour College is seeking to embrace the demand for training in the various disciplines associated with the country’s emerging oil and gas industry to rebuild its reputation as a major contributor to education delivery in Guyana.  Principal of the College, Ivor English told Stabroek Business on Monday that the two-day preliminary Oil and Gas Course Seminar delivered late in May in collaboration with two Trinidad and Tobago companies Apollo Global Vision Ltd and Kaizen Environmental Services was intended to serve as an introduction to a wider ambition of creating a high-level Centre for Oil and Gas that will seek to offer courses that will equip graduates for rewarding jobs in the sector.  Towards this end the College has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kaizen and Apollo under which the two specialist companies will be intimately involved in both the design and delivery of courses run by the local Centre for Oil and Gas.  English told Stabroek Business that the decision by the College to move in the direction of establishing an institution specializing in the training of Guyanese in oil and gas-related fields had to be seen within the context of the importance which the institution places on remaining relevant.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Sloane Stephens maintained her perfect record against fellow American Madison Keys as she blazed into the French Open final with a 6-4 6-4 win on Thursday in a repeat of last year’s U.S.

Dear Editor, Since taking over the levers of power in Guyana the PNC-led APNU+AFC regime has displayed a remarkable lack of concern for people’s welfare.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina and the International Monetary Fund said yesterday they reached an agreement for a three-year, $50 billion standby lending arrangement, which the government said it sought to provide a safety net and avoid the frequent crises of the country’s past.

Businessman Dereck Jaisingh now faces a retrial after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict in the case against him for allegedly attempting to murder two men in 2014.

Broccoli and cauliflower have long outgrown the expression ‘exotic crops’ in the Guyana context.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro felled Marin Cilic in a French Open clash of the titans, winning 7-6(5) 5-7 6-3 7-5 on Thursday, and will now aim his heavy artillery at 10-times champion Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals.

PAHOA, Hawaii,  (Reuters) – Approximately 600 homes have been destroyed by lava flows on Hawaii’s Big Island since the current eruption of Kilaeua Volcano began early last month, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said on Thursday.

Two more persons testified yesterday when the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against Matthew Munroe, the man accused of murdering school teacher Kescia Branche, continued.

Dear Editor, Using the Bible to exclude or attack people is morally unconscionable.

Part 111 Another adverse impact on the environment due to Artisanal and Small scale Gold Mining (ASGM) is deforestation.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde has declared that Guyana will support the joint North American bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States of America for the 2026 World Cup.

Part I By Richard Rambarran & Shaleeza Shaw Richard Rambarran – Richard Rambarran is the Executive Director of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce & Industry and a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Guyana.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation yesterday that would roll back an agreement President Donald Trump’s administration announced to ease sanctions on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp.

Dear Editor, Women in Guyana continue to be murdered at the hands of our men and something needs to be done urgently to address this issue.

Karen Small, the mother of the young Mae’s student at the centre of the recent culture day controversy, has deemed the school’s apology a “good step going forward.”

Former murder accused Kevin France was yesterday cleared of two robbery charges after a city magistrate found that the police failed to prove their case against him.

Guyana’s medal count remained at five, following the penultimate day of the South American Games being staged in Bolivia.

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OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s Senate yesterday voted to legalize recreational marijuana, clearing a major hurdle that puts the country on track to become the first Group of Seven nation to permit national use of the drug.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Elections Com-mission is a constitutional commission established by Article 161 of the Constitution.

At the trial of Vishwantie Ragnauth and Nyron Thakurdyal, who are charged with murdering Sunil Ramsundar, a policeman yesterday recounted giving the two accused a lift and hearing one of them speaking about having stabbed someone.

Dear Editor, History is replete with examples of rights deprivations. Sometimes it actually seems easy.

The Guyana Senior Men’s Basketball Team departed local shores this morning to face-off with host nation Barbados in an international three match series.

If you happen to go by the Starr Computers’ Brickdam complex it is well worth the while to pop in for a peek at the company’s ever changing range of hi-tech computerized equipment and increasingly, continually upgraded range of cellular phones.

(Trinidad Express) The leadership of the Masjid ul Mattaqeen has distanced itself from the discovery of arms and ammunition found hidden in the ceiling of its mosque at Monroe Road, Cunupia, yesterday.

SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala,  (Reuters) – The search for survivors from deadly eruptions of Guatemala’s Fuego volcano was temporarily suspended yesterday due to dangerous conditions for rescue workers, as the death toll from the disaster climbed to 109, authorities said.

Dear Editor, I feel compelled to support the condemnation appearing in SN’s columns of Tuesday, June 5th, of the vacuity that was wantonly labelled as ‘Carnival’, albeit from a more nationalistic perspective.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven rich nations headed for a summit in Canada on Thursday more divided than at any time in the group’s 42-year history, as U.S.

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters yesterday, in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally.

BERNE, (Reuters) – England and Portugal enjoyed comfortable home wins in their final World Cup warm-up matches on Thursday, beating Costa Rica 2-0 and Algeria 3-0 respectively.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday June 7, 2018 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

(Reuters) – A 500-year-old copy of a letter in which Christopher Columbus describes his voyage to the Americas has been returned to Spain after U.S.

(Barbados Nation) Massy Distribution (Barbados) Ltd., on behalf of Regal Products Limited, the manufacturer for Regal products out of Trinidad and Tobago, has issued a voluntary recall for Regal Glucose – 225 grammes.

Introduction This column turns attention to the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) for the Liza Phase 1 Develop-ment Project done by Environmental Resources Management (ERM) an external consultancy firm which describes itself as is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk, social consulting services and sustainability related services.

The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

One critical flaw in the management of this country that has not changed even one iota, despite the changes in the managers over the years, is our seemingly wilful or unwitting neglect of many state institutions, both with regard to systems and infrastructure.

Field Level Media: James Harden’s NBA peers voted the Houston Rockets guard MVP for the second time, the National Basketball Players Association announced.

(Bet today’s piece will rank amongst my “most-brief” as I seek some “time-out”) I’ll skip the usual classical definitions of corruption – as in executive, governmental corruption – those shady illegal practices.

Dear Editor, Indian Arrival was celebrated in New York City last Sunday June 3 with an entertainment packed cultural variety concert and singing and dancing competition at the Smokey Park in the heart of Richmond Hill, popularly known as “Little Guyana” because of the hundreds of thousands of Guyanese who are settled there.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 776’s trading results showed consideration of $15,388,834 from 248,679 shares traded in 24 transactions as compared to session 775’s trading results which showed consideration of $5,712,760 from 28,110 shares traded in 6 transactions.

The Stabroek Business has, in recent weeks, focused a considerable amount of editorial attention on the collaborative efforts involving government, the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) and the agro processing sector, through initiatives like the UncappeD events and the lobbying efforts taking place at the level of exchanges between GMSA and government officials.

The Yamatwao Bridge, in the South Rupununi, Region Nine, has been temporarily repaired following its collapse last week.