Daily Archive: Sunday, August 12, 2018

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC – Barbados Tridents defeated Guyana Amazon Warriors by 30 runs, in the sixth match of the Caribbean Premier League at the Guyana National Stadium here today.

The driver of motor car PDD 7182 which reportedly slammed into the rear of a parked lorry about 04:20h this morning on the La Grange Public Road, WBD, has died along with two of three occupants of the vehicle, the police said in a statement today.

Two policemen attached to the Kurupung Police Station are under investigation in relation to the murder of a Brazilian miner yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I will say I am the sum of my books.”

Given Guyana’s current “difficult political climate” and “potential security situation”, a United Nations (UN) assessment team has found that there are various possible risks to future electoral processes, with the non-acceptance by the losing party at the 2020 elections being seen as the primary one.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday rubbished claims by the parliamentary opposition that government has not taken urgent measures to manage the country’s crime problems, while arguing that the existing statistics are proof of its efforts.

Twenty-seven women, who are all foreign nationals, were detained on Friday evening after police raided a bar at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, which they were told housed a strip club.

With a dream of becoming Guyana’s own Willy Wonka, a French-born Guyanese chocolatier has opened the country’s first artisanal chocolate shop.

Canadian oil and gas exploration company CGX Energy Inc. on Friday evening held a naming and blessing ceremony for its next offshore oil exploration well, “Utakwaaka,” which is to be drilled by November next year in the Corentyne Block.

Eighty-one kilometres from the city sits the village of Ross between Brahan and Yeoville on the West Coast Berbice.

President David Granger has dismissed the criticisms of his recent pre-Emancipation speech at Beterverwagting (BV), saying that he sees no issue with his comments since they were both relevant and important.

I have said it before and often, but some things need repeating: particularly in a time when we see so much to fix in Guyana, we should be also taking time on the obverse to champion what is of value among us in our people. 

Professor Clive Thomas stimulated much discussion last week when he proposed the idea of a US$5000 per year cash transfer to Guyanese families.

US-based businessman Jerome Bulkan has always been involved in humanitarian work, and for him it was not just about helping children in orphanages.

The AFC declared on Monday last that it would be contesting the November 12 local government elections on its own.

Some time ago I was seated in my parked car on Camp Street with my two sons when I overheard a ruckus.

Always someone who is willing volunteer his service, Devon Beckles, the 18-year-old newly appointed Linden Youth Mayor, is calling on his peers to become more involved in volunteerism since it would not only give them much-needed experience, but they would be involved in the development of the mining town.

I find it hard to understand why most people never, literally never, read poetry.

Armed bandits robbed a hire car driver of $450,000 in cash and valuables on Friday night, shortly after he returned to his La Grange, West Bank Demerara home.

Introduction Today’s column continues the discussion on absorption capacity. This is on my list of top-ten development challenges, which spending of Guyana’s expected significant Government Take from first oil and first gas will have to contend with, starting 2020.

The body of an unidentified man was discovered floating in a trench at Canal No.

Overseas-based doctors have concluded that no additional treatment options can be offered to improve the condition of Matthew Zaman, the eight-year-old child who has been bedridden for more than seven months after he was struck down by a minibus along the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) Public Road.

The longstanding absence of a National Insurance Commissioner has left one elderly woman unable to appeal a decision by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) tribunal to disallow her the payment of survivor’s benefits.

The Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) will soon begin testing the mercury content of rivers which are the main source of water supply for mining communities, after sections of the Kaituma River revealed high levels of mercury content.

With five runs to defend from the last delivery, Keemo Paul held his nerve to see Guyana record a three-run win over St.

The 1.4 million hectares of land, which have reverted to the State Forests Estate after initially being allocated for forestry concessions under the former administration in areas in the south of Guyana, may be considered for protected status, Head of Planning at the Guyana Forestry Commission Pradeepa Bholanauth has hinted.  

Six months after a security sector reform plan was handed over to government by British security expert Lt Col (rtd) Russell Combe, the document is still being perused, President David Granger said on Thursday.

Dear Editor, After being at Providence, I wish to point out the seminal contribution the Guyana Amazon Warriors (GAW) are making to our national development.

PSL’s Curtis `Chappy’ Dey edged a three-man sprint to the finishing line in the featured 35-lap schoolboys and invitational race of the inaugural Lucozade/ICool 11-stage cycling meet in the National Park  yesterday.

Dear Editor,   Globally, August 12th is celebrated by not-for-profit organizations, international charitable entities and governments as “International Youth Day”.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Twenty20 star Andre Russell plundered an astonishing, unbeaten hundred and also grabbed a hat-trick, as he dragged Jamaica Tallawahs to a dramatic come-from-behind four-wicket victory over reigning champions Trinbago Knight Riders in a thriller here Friday night.

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has reported a 7.4% decrease in the occurrence of fatal accidents at the end of July, 2018.

Dear Editor, It was brought to my attention that the government and its cohorts have been circulating a clip from my last press conference with the claim that I made derogatory remarks about our Amerindian people.  

Julius Variety Store confirmed their support of the 2nd Annual Guinness Cage Street-ball Championship, donating an undisclosed sum to tournament coordinators Three Peat Promotions on Tuesday at their Regent Street location. 

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is mulling the purchase of additional generators to support its pump stations currently serving heavily populated areas around the country, according to Managing Director Dr.

Following a massive turnout on the opening night the second Guinness Cage Street-ball championships will resume on Wednesday at the Haslington Market Tarmac with 12 matches.

DNA samples have been taken for testing from the remains suspected to be those of missing labourer Patrick Vyfhuis, which were discovered more than two weeks ago at Kuribrong, in Region Eight.

Dear Editor, How is it that persons and companies donate to sport organizations but choose not to divulge how much they are donating?

LONDON (Reuters) – Trinidad-born British author V.S. Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2001, has died at his home in London aged 85, the BBC reported on Saturday.

Figgy Green Jags will oppose Quiet Storm while Germans will battle Good Fellas in the semi-finals of the Mohamed’s Enterprise/ExxonMobil Futsal tournament following quarterfinal wins on Friday.

Dear Editor, The Aurora Primary and Nursery Schools were recently built at a cost of about $120,000,000 Guyana dollars, followed quickly by the construction of the soon to be commissioned Police Station whose cost is very close to that of the Primary and Nursery Schools. 

The Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) investigation into the Jet Ski accident, which claimed the life of overseas-based Guyanese Ravindra Budhraj in July, remains active, MARAD’s Director of Safety John Flores has said.

Despite being presented with questions for written responses more than three weeks ago, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence was granted a request to defer responding to them, after she said that her staff has been unable to do the requisite research to answer the questions due to being occupied with other duties.

(Jamaica Gleaner): Jennifer Messado, the prominent real estate attorney accused of defrauding millions of dollars from several persons, has applied to the Supreme Court to have her name removed from the list of lawyers authorised to practise in Jamaica.

With less than 40 persons viewing at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, Buxton United held Western Tigers to a 1-1 draw, when the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] Elite League continued on Friday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called for “swift and just” legal action from new courts after the head of the judiciary said the country faced an “economic war”, state television reported.

Dear Editor, I wasn’t sure whether to laugh, giggle or yawn upon reading Dr.

The Guyana Government values the role played by Indigenous Peoples in Guyana’s national development efforts highly, and Guyanese should be considering how to balance the traditionalist views of them with their desire to be integrated into the socio-economic, cultural and political life of the country, Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) Ambassador Riyad Insanally said last Thursday.  

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Former Australia Test captain Steve Smith has backed Barbados Tridents to break their three-year title drought and win this year’s Caribbean Premier League.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Dozens of air strikes and shelling hit parts of the last swathe of Syrian territory still held by rebels on Friday, according to rebels, rescue workers and a war monitoring group, in a possible prelude to a full-scale government offensive.

Dear Editor, I am watching the continuous swirl of motion around here, while listening to the ongoing laments, many times shrill, always dark and foreboding. 

Adenium commonly called Desert Rose originated in Africa, specifically in the desert, hence the common name.

(Trinidad Guardian): Three men, among them a national from the Dominican Republic, have been remanded into custody after appearing before a Chaguanas magistrate charged with the kidnapping and rape of three women which occurred over the period July 25 to August 2, 2018.

Following losses in their earlier group matches, the Guyana U14 Boys defeated Bonaire 5-1 yesterday in their final group fixture of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Challenge Series.

TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday against Israel’s new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country’s Arab minority and drawn criticism abroad.

Last Saturday the Town Clerk of Georgetown, Mr Royston King, in a letter to this newspaper, defended the City Council’s decision to hold a week of celebratory activities commemorating the birth of our capital city.

Ever since the early development of human civilisation there has always been a very close relationship between religion and theatre, or at least between theatre and spiritual belief and ritual.

Devon Porter, the taxi driver who police say attempted to dump a gun after a bid to evade them ended in an accident, is now a remanded prisoner.

This week, in keeping with the weight loss theme I have been addressing, I will discuss flexible dieting and protein shakes.

Dear Editor, There is not much needed to be done to get the fans racing back to the grounds to watch the game.

(Barbados Nation): All is not well with the South Coast sewage crisis.

The executive committee of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF), led by its President James Bond, created an exquisite show for its fundraising dinner three Saturday evenings ago at the Promenade Gardens.

The once functioning Demba locomotive is one of the historical landmarks in Watooka, Linden.

The Plain-crowned Spinetail (Synallaxis gujanensis)is found in the Guianas and much of Amazonia.