Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Articles published on Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Winston Felix

Felix again cancels parliament committee appearance

With today making it the third cancellation by Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix of an appearance before  the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs to answer questions on the thousands of Cubans and Haitians unaccounted for here, Committee Chairman Gail Teixeira is questioning his motives.  “We agreed to this date and then suddenly yesterday we understood that he cancelled…but he said that he has other government business to do,” Teixeira told Stabroek News while explaining that he offered no alternative dates.

Aubrey Heath-Retemyer

Bar Association slams SARA Deputy Director for ‘attack’ on judiciary

The Guyana Bar Association has come out swinging against comments made by Deputy Director of the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) Aubrey Heath-Retemyer which they claim are “unjustified attack[s] by an agent of the Executive on the independence of the Judiciary…in violation of the principle of separation of powers.”  In a statement released yesterday, the Bar Council of the Bar Association called for Heath-Retemyer to   “immediately issue an unconditional retraction and apology” for statements reported in the July 22 edition of the Kaieteur News and to refrain from making any similar statement in future.

Cellsmart Manager Oshell Bourne (left) hands over the sponsorship cheque to Aubrey Major jr yesterday morning.

Smart move!

The fifth annual New Era Entertainment organised Mohamed’s Enterprise/ExxonMobil Futsal tournament, received timely support yesterday morning from Cellsmart Guyana at the company’s Avenue of the Republic branch office. 

Lennox Shuman

Shuman says new party for September launch

The new political party announced by former National Toshaos Council vice chairman is expected to be launched in September as the people behind its formation are going into retreat to get its constitution, code of conduct and other party instruments in order.  “We have agreed that we are going to have a political party.

Wilfred Branford hands over the sponsorship cheque to Jasmine Bilingy.

Car Care sponsors Billingy’s Pre-Cadet venture

Car Care continued its social duty and deep ties with sports this time providing full sponsorship to eight-year-old Jasmine Billingy who will travel to the Caribbean Pre Cadet Table Tennis Championship which is set to run from August 24 to September 1 in the Dominican Republic.

Trenace Lowe

Lowe stopped by Diaz in quarters

Guyana’s top female table tennis player Trenace Lowe, bowed out the ongoing Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) Games in Colombia after she was defeated by Puerto Rico’s Melanie Diaz.

Perhaps it is time Minister Sharma opens his mind to the possibility there are no criminal cases of any substance

Dear Editor, Articles such as `Minister Sharma laments SOCU sloth’ in SN (2018-07-23) and, `Sharma annoyed by SOCU’s performance with forensic audits’ in GC of 2018-07-17 are the latest in about two years of weekly and sometimes daily haranguing declarations and denouncements by many members of our Cabinet and Government members in Parliament, committing to jail the members and administrators of the past PPP/C administration.

Wildfires kill at least 74 in Greece’s “Pompeii”

MATI, Greece,  (Reuters) – Greece’s prime minister told of the “unspeakable tragedy” the country faced after at least 74 people were killed by wildfires that swept through a resort, trapping people in cars and on the edge of cliffs as others were forced to jump off to survive.

Failed states

Two weeks ago, with the current migration problem in Europe in mind, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Netherlands, Stef Blok, asked his audience consisting of Dutch employees of international organisations to ‘Give me an example of a multi-ethnic or multicultural society where the original population still lives … and where there is a peaceful society.