Daily Archive: Friday, October 5, 2018

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Brett Kavanaugh looked headed for a lifetime job on the U.S.

British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn (second from left), accompanied by his counterparts to Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago respectively, Janet Douglas (second from right) and Tim Stew (left) yesterday called on Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl B.

Amid the continuing carnage on the roads, the Guyana Police Force Traffic Department has reintroduced its traffic education unit with the aim of “restoring safer and better road practices”.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) A Manchester woman is now in police custody after stabbing to death her 38-year-old common-law husband, Oneil Coleman.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) The Jamaican police plan to seek the assistance of their counterparts in the United States (US) to help identify the persons behind the cache of guns and over 600 assorted rounds of ammunition that were seized at the wharf in Kingston on Wednesday, law enforcement sources have revealed.

Under a five-year Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) initiative, approximately 2,500 poor families are expected to receive housing assistance, which will include the construction of core homes that will be allocated for free to 250 of the most vulnerable.

At a hearing spanning some five hours yesterday, the Guyana Court of Appeal began hearing arguments in the appeal filed by PPP executive Zulfikar Mustapha to challenge the ruling upholding President David Granger’s unilateral appointment of retired Justice James Patterson as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday defended his criticisms of President David Granger’s governance, saying they were meant to hold him accountable.

Three men are expected to face charges, including drug trafficking, today after their arrests by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) on Wednesday resulted in the discovery of over 25 pounds of cocaine.

An Annandale, East Coast Demerara businesswoman is wanted for questioning by the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) following the recent seizure of cocaine by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) from a vessel from Guyana.

World Teachers’ Day finds Guyana’s teachers between a rock and a hard place as they are being called upon to engage in industrial action by their union, while also being threatened with grave consequences by their employer, the Ministry of Education, should they do so.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP/C) will not contest the seats in the Wakenaan Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) at the November 12th Local Government Elections, having withdrawn its list of candidates because a number of the names of nominators were either dead or they no longer live in the area.

Seasoned campaigners Nyron Joseph and Abosaide Cadogan began their campaign in the 2018 edition of the Lucozade handicap squash tournament with contrasting wins at the Georgetown Club last evening.

Cultural Policy Advisor Ruel Johnson has found himself the subject of a police investigation over comments he made on Facebook about accused pedophile teacher Coen Jackson and his fiancée Tiffany Humphrey.

New Frontier (NF) Agriculture yesterday announced that its farm at Ebini is set to harvest a test crop of approximately 100 acres of corn.

The Secretary of the Linden Chamber of Commerce, Staydon Payne is under no illusions about what it will take to place Linden on a viable entrepreneurial footing.

Despite concluding the ‘Elite League’ on September 23rd, the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] is yet to pay the top four finishers their respective prize monies and the players, their match day stipends.

A welder was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempting to murder dog food vendor Shane Cooper, who was shot twice in an attack last week.

National table tennis players who recently returned from participating in the 60th edition of the Caribbean Table Tennis Federation (CTTF) Senior Championships in Jamaica, are keen on recording more success on home soil in 2019. 

The November 19th – 23rd Ninth Caribbean Beekeeping Congress could precede the end of a three-year-old ban on locally produced honey either entering Trinidad and Tobago.

Three women were yesterday charged with attempting to bribe a police sergeant to release three men held for unlawful possession of a gun.

Plaisance Guardians dismantled the Pepsi Sonics, while Ravens schooled the University of Guyana [UG] Trojans on Wednesday in the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s [GABA] League Championship.

A Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officer on Tuesday denied offering a plea deal to a key witness in the case against accused cocaine traffickers Stephen Vieira, Tazim Gafoor, Nazim Gafoor and Sherwayne De Abreu continued.

When President David Granger visited the Ruimveldt operations of the Brass Aluminium and Cast Iron Foundry more than a year ago he made a point of underscoring the importance of innovation in industry in pursuit of adapting to the needs of the Guyanese economy.

An arrest warrant was yesterday issued for a police constable, who was too busy to be cross-examined when the preliminary trial of former police officers Derwin Eastman and Jamenson Williams, who are charged with murder, continued.

The 2018 edition of the Guyana Softball Cup will bowl off on October 26th and will run for two days across various grounds in and around Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Following the publication of a letter in the September 30, 2018 Sunday Stabroek, with the headline, “Working class Guyanese relegated to drive old vehicles”; a response was published on October 4, 2018 headlined, “Taxes have been reduced for approximately 90% of vehicles imported into Guyana”.

By Berry Dann, Julianna Dietz, and Sarah Ward The Ocean Foundation With 2020 and ‘first oil’ on the horizon the Stabroek Business seeks to provide readers with insights into aspects of the sector and its operations including issues relating to the processes and risks associated with the recovery process.

A Grove man is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with robbing another man of over $1.4 million in jewellery in an attack with a knife.

Jamaica’s sixteen-year-old Financial Investigations Division (FID), a department created within the country’s Ministry of Finance to track and expose financial misdeeds within state agencies is reporting “quiet success” in its pursuits, a circumstance that strengthens the case being made for it to have greater independence, budgetary and human resources capacity and autonomy, according to a recent report in the Jamaica Gleaner.

(Trinidad Express) A man was shot and killed in Penal this afternoon by two men who broke into the home of his parents.

The cycling season will resume tomorrow in the National Park with the staging of the 14th annual Hand-in-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company’s 11-race programme.

Dear Editor, I refer to President David Granger’s interview with the Guyana Review, (October 2018) that was published in the Stabroek News edition of Tuesday, October 2, 2018, and captioned “No walk in the park”.

Demerara Mutual has gone “green,” with the launch of new tech features designed to not only reduce the company’s environmental footprint, but also improve its customers’ experience.

RAJKOT, India, CMC – West Indies suffered at the hands of teenager Prithvi Shaw who struck the third fastest hundred on debut as India dominated the opening day of the first Test here yesterday.

Dear Editor, October 5, 1992, has gone down in our history as one of the most important dates in Guyana.

We met 79-year -old John Caesar at his place of business, named Caesar’s Logi and situated at 160 Pineapple Street Linden.

Nearly all of the recent tests conducted at the Guyana Gold Board (GGB), the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) have found the mercury vapour concentration to be below the analytical limit of detection, according to preliminary results from a visiting inspection team.

Following a no-case submission that was made on behalf of former Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and his wife, who are accused of failing to comply with a court order, the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) prosecutor argued that the duo ought to be called upon to lead a defence to the charge.

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

(Reuters) – Sportswear maker Nike Inc and video game maker Electronic Arts Inc said yesterday they were concerned about rape allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the world’s best football players.

Dear Editor, The letter by Nigel Hinds relating to the exorbitant import taxes on vehicles, (SN, 30/09/2018) is something of concern to Guyanese.

(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday charged seven Russian intelligence officers with conspiring to hack computers and steal data from the nuclear energy company Westinghouse Electric Co as well as anti-doping watchdogs, sporting federations and an international agency probing the use of chemical weapons.

(Reuters) – India’s Prithvi Shaw has been compared to batting great Sachin Tendulkar since he was a 14-year-old schoolboy and the lofty parallels will intensify after the teenage prodigy made a sparkling hundred on his test debut yesterday.

Dear Editor, A better relationship is desirable but the one who expressed such a desire has to first walk the talk in meaningful and tangible ways.

The expected installation of street lighting has started on Wakenaam Island.

(Reuters) – Whoever wins Brazil’s presidential race this month will inherit a fiscal straight jacket and a drifting economy in urgent need of repair – but will have no governing coalition in Congress to pass reforms.

Sections of Georgetown were once again without power for several hours yesterday and the Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Kitco Market Data Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday October 4, 2018

(Reuters) – American Floyd Landis, who won the Tour de France in 2006 but lost the title after being found guilty of doping, announced yesterday plans to launch a professional cycling team that will be sponsored by his cannabis business.

Stock market updates

Dear Editor, I read with great interest, the letter published “PNC has done little to expand its political base” (SN, 1/10/2018), written by Alex Duncan.

Introduction Following last week’s call for a Commission of Inquiry into the Petroleum Sector, more than a handful of individuals approached me enquiring whether the call was serious and what would be the expected outcome.

The concept of “Local Content” is not a new one, and contrary to popular opinion or use, is not limited in application to the oil and gas sector alone.

(Reuters) President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans gained confidence on Thursday that his U.S.

It seems that every time this newspaper visits the Guyana Marketing Corporation’s Guyana Shop several new brands of locally produced agro-products are on display and available for sale to the public.

-When His Excellency retires – at 80… Sometimes “repetition-for-emphasis” – an old-school teaching technique – can be useful.