Daily Archive: Friday, December 14, 2018

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump directed the payment of hush money to two women shortly before the 2016 U.S.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) today responded to an article published in today’s Kaieteur News dated Friday, December 14, 2018, under the headline, `Infrastructure setting the wrong example’.

The police today said that Jermaine Williams, 40, of Lot 331 Richmond, Essequibo Coast who escaped from the Anna Regina Police Station in February 2018 where he was held for Rape and also on several Affiliation Warrants with arrears totaling $1,056,300, was recaptured yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Po­lice Con­sta­ble at­tached to the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) is cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody af­ter be­ing charged with two counts of com­mon as­sault and ob­struc­tion of jus­tice.

Guyana’s revenue from oil and gas for at least the first five years of production will be nothing to boast about, according to Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, who says it will be sometime before the country and its people benefit from the expected wealth.

Although promising to do so, Speaker Dr. Barton Scotland has not yet responded to a formal complaint by Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira that the continued presence of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo in the National Assembly, while performing the functions of President, is in breach of the Constitution.

Police on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) have impounded a vehicle that is suspected to have been used in a hit and run accident, which claimed the life of an Annandale teenager.

MATPAL Marine Institute and TOTALTEC Oilfield Services have joined resources and expertise to launch the Maritime Safety Training Institute (MSTI).

After spending six years behind bars and facing two trials for the alleged murder of Edun Farms truck driver Aga Khan, Mahendra Bishundial yesterday afternoon walked out of the High Court in Georgetown a free man.

The United States Embassy is happy to answer some common questions that non-immigrant visa applicants may have.

A $75m administrative building will be constructed in 2019 to house staff currently occupying the dilapidated City Hall building, according to Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan, who has also disclosed that phased restoration works will subsequently be done on the historic structure.

Days after being hospitalised following an accident along the Herstelling Public Road, on the East Bank of Demerara, Police Sergeant 16542 Joseph Elton Ambrose has succumbed to his injuries.

Guyana and Brazil yesterday signed an investment facilitation agreement in Brasilia.

The Guyana Jaguars found themselves stuttering late in the day with the bat after bowling Leeward Islands’ Hurricanes out for 182 in their first innings of the second round in the Cricket West Indies Regional four-day tournament.

Northern Rangers was crowned the Turbo Knockout Football Champion, upsetting highly favoured Georgetown Football Club (GFC) 2-1 on Wednesday night at the Ministry of Education ground.

Following three hours of examination, the Committee of Supply yesterday approved the $7.2 billion budget for Region Four (Demerara/Mahaica).

Plaisance Guardians secured the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association’s (GABA) 2nd Division League Championship, edging Pacesetters 67-65 on Wednesday at the Burnham Court, Middle and Carmichael Streets.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) has launched an internal investigation into the smuggling of 70 live finches inside hair rollers from Guyana into the US, Chief Executive Officer of the airport Ramesh Ghir said.

Winners Connection and Silver Shattas secured identical 2-1 victories when the 6th GT Beer Football Championship continued on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden.

A fire, suspected to be of electrical origin, destroyed a house at Overwinning Village, East Bank Berbice yesterday afternoon.

(Reuters) – The clock is ticking on Justin Gatlin and not just the stopwatch.

Kwakwani, Mackenzie High, the Government Technical Institute (GTI) and Marian Academy secured wins in the Under 19 section when Youth Basketball Guyana’s ‘Titan Bowl’ commenced yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

A labourer was yesterday granted bail after he denied charges of assaulting two police officers and injuring his ex-girlfriend.

(Reuters) – Some of the world’s top swimmers will gather at a brainstorming summit in London next week hosted by the International Swimming League (ISL), which is looking to challenge world governing body FINA’s control over international competitions.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate delivered a rare double rebuke to President Donald Trump on Saudi Arabia yesterday, voting to end U.S.

Supreme Ventures Limited of Jamaica, one of the region’s best known betting, gaming, and lottery operations has launched a multi-million dollar gaming operation in Guyana. 

The allocation for security services for the Ministry of Education has dropped by $21 million in one programme and increased by about $5 million in another following a reduction of the rates for daily and weekend services provided by the current contracted security firm, Minister of Education Nicolette Henry says.       

(Reuters) – Three-time NBA champion Stephen Curry will take space agency NASA up on its offer to tour its lunar lab after he sparked controversy by saying he did not believe humans had ever been to the Moon, comments he later called a joke.

Staged with much aplomb at the prestigious Marriott Hotel as a joint public/private sector initiative in collaboration with the Caribbean Export Development Agency, the September 19-22  Guyana Trade and Investment Exhibition (GuyTIE) was envisaged as a Business to Business forum, “a platform for local export-ready businesses to engage foreign buyers and other potential partners.”

CARICOM Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque met on Wednesday with Prime Minister of Aruba, Evelyn Wever-Croes, to discuss Associate membership for the Dutch territory in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The head of the U.N. agency for HIV and AIDS is stepping down in June, six months before his term ends, after an independent panel said that his “defective leadership” tolerated “a culture of harassment, including sexual harassment, bullying, and abuse of power”.

A Lindener was yesterday released on bail after denying a charge of trafficking 27 grammes of cannabis.

A delay of more than two days in City Hall giving the ‘green light’ for its two principal waste disposal contractors to return to work following the brokering of a deal to facilitate the early partial settlement of a multi-million dollar debt owning to them may point to a “deeper problem,” a municipal source has told Stabroek Business.

(Reuters) – Chelsea said fans found guilty of racism would face the strongest possible action following allegations of anti-Semitic chanting by their supporters during their final Europa League group game against Vidi FC in Budapest yesterday.

First Lady, Sandra Granger, yesterday encouraged 25 graduates of the Comprehensive Empowerment Programme for Adolescent Mothers (CEPAM), to continue on their path to success while offering her support through several  improvement programmes under her stewardship, in addition to those  available through the State.

MOJAVE, Calif., (Reuters) – A Virgin Galactic rocket plane reached space yesterday  and returned safely to the California desert, capping years of testing to become the first U.S.

BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – European Union leaders assured Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday that the Brexit treaty she agreed last month but is struggling to get through UK parliament should not bind Britain forever to EU rules.

Dear Editor, The December 10, Stabroek News reported that Prime Minister and First Vice President, Moses Nagamootoo in his contribution to the 2019 Budget debate said the Budget “…will ensure pay and continued jobs for all workers inside and outside of government…”.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The chief executive of the Football Association, Martin Glenn, has resigned and will leave his role in May of next year, England’s soccer body announced yesterday.

Dianne Innis possesses no lofty ambitions that have to do with ‘changing the world’ or even lifting all of the young and underprivileged Guyanese whose lives are blighted by poverty and perhaps worse, by lack of opportunity, out of their present predicament.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan lawmakers yesterday blocked five non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that had been critical of President Daniel Ortega from formally operating, after previously blocking five others, including a prominent human rights group.

Driven by a health and wellness trend, the global demand for fresh coconuts, coconut-based products and value-added products are at an all-time high and is projected  to  continue to grow exponentially.

Dear Editor, The Postal Service today is an exact replica of what, in structure and system, it was in the colonial era, except that the quality of management then was highly respected.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – When Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel abruptly resigned on Monday, it stunned many people in government and business circles.

West Indies will look to cover the basic aspects of their game, hoping to end a string of series defeats when they face Bangladesh in the final One Day International at Sylhet today.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – New gangs are muscling into cocaine markets in Europe, setting up smuggling networks straight from producers in Latin America to consumers, a business which used to be dominated by the mafia, the Lisbon-based EU drugs agency said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Russian woman pleaded guilty in a U.S.

(Reuters) – The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) will offer greater protection to the rankings of mothers returning to the tour after giving birth, British media reported yesterday.

With last week’s disclosure by ExonMobil of a tenth oil find offshore Guyana since May 2015, international investor interest in the country as potentially the next ‘high flier’ in the global oil and gas industry persists.

Dear Editor, In the Accountability Watch column of December 10 in the Stabroek News, I expressed  deep concern about the continuing practice of having deficit budgeting which results in a progressive increase in the overdraft on the Consolidated Fund.

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

Dear Editor, Pictures in the media of the “head table” at the annual Police Officers’ Christmas Breakfast at Eve Leary are very disappointing.

RIMBO, Sweden,  (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties agreed yesterday to cease fighting for the Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah and withdraw their troops, the first significant breakthrough for U.N.-led

DOHA, (Reuters) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino said yesterday that a majority of national soccer federations were in favour of expanding the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to 48 teams.

The Gafoor Foundation: Support for Vulnerable Persons (SVP) yesterday awarded four students of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) bursaries from their yearly scholarship programme.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Brazil won part of its appeal at the World Trade Organization yesterday in a dispute over its industrial stimulus programmes, successfully challenging an earlier ruling that had faulted tax breaks for predominantly exporting companies and capital goods.

Dear Editor, On or about the 27th September, 2018, the almost new John Deere Tractor and Trailer owned by the Good Hope Pomona Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), was left within the compound of the Aurora Secondary School at Pomona Village on the Essequibo Coast, Region # 2,  and that was on the advice and instruction of the Chairman of the NDC.

A young policeman from Eve Leary who represented the Guyana Police Force at the 6th Inter-American Youth Forum and the 27th Scout Conference in Panama from November 21 to December 3, 2018, has been rewarded for being an excellent Ambassador, a release from the police said yesterday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court yestreday ruled President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament ahead of its term as illegal, in a setback for the embattled leader in his face off with an elected premier.

One of the more important disclosures to come out of the post-budget presentations in the National Assembly last week was the one made by Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin regarding what we hope is a definitive confirmation that the 20 per cent allocation of state contracts to small businesses will take effect in January 2019.

Rookie revelation Allonzo Trier has made the most of his shot with the New York Knicks.

Part 66   Introduction Mr. David Patterson, Minister of Public Infrastructure, offered a commendably prompt but strange response to last week’s column by way of his December 8 letter to the editor “The 2019 budgetary allocation has nothing to do with natural gas”.

There has been much talk over the years about the importance of achieving social cohesion in Guyana, particularly since the current administration put in place a Ministry of Social Cohesion intended to advance social cohesion among the various racial and cultural groups in Guyana.

Dyslexia? Never give up! Man, the captions will easily indicate that I’m “all-over-the-place” in these paragraphs today.

Stock market updates

Del Monte Foods Inc. is recalling more than 64,000 cases of canned corn because the corn did not go through the entire sterilization process and could cause life-threatening illness if eaten.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The Panama Canal Authority said on Wednesday that an arbitration tribunal has ordered the construction consortium behind the waterway’s expansion to pay back nearly $848 million to the canal authority.