Articles published on Friday, February 8, 2019
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Food Storage and Prevention of Infestation Division (FSPID), in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF) says it has confiscated 70 metric tonnes (1,575 bags) of White Cinderella rice from Guyana due to high microbial content.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, today, signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Guyana Hockey Board which are intended for the construction of two state-of-the-art sporting facilities behind D’Urban Park.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said today the U.S.-backed
(Jamaica Gleaner) Collaring corrupt criminal actors and untouchables will require the Government to adopt tougher legislation that forces them to prove their sources of wealth or be thrown into prison, says Howard Mitchell, leader of Jamaica’s most powerful business lobby.
(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old boy expected to appear in court today, charged with sexual penetration of a 15-year-old girl.
(Trinidad Express) Police are trying to find out why Mariah Neptune was shot and killed in Tunapuna on Thursday night.
(Trinidad Express) Frustrated at the slow pace of development and the terrible road conditions within their community, Fyzabad residents took up the onus of repairing the road themselves.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Developers have lost a court appeal to build a coal mine in Australia’s Hunter Valley over its potentially “dire” environmental impact in the country’s first legal review of a coal mine project to hear evidence from a climate scientist.
(Reuters) – Better bowling execution has lifted West Indies to victory in their series against England, the Caribbean team’s former coach Stuart Law has said ahead of the third and final test starting in St.
(Jamaica Observer) The police are now investigating the possible existence of a baby-stealing ring after recovering an infant that had been snatched from Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) last month.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday called for the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate government’s huge increases in thresholds for restricted tendering and he warned heads of agencies not to get ensnared by illegalities.
A sixty-four-year-old Bartica woman died on Saturday after being stranded for close to two days on the decrepit Puruni Trail in Region Seven.
The Region Six Democratic Council was yesterday informed that the New Amsterdam Public Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer is expected to be replaced following a series of complaints from residents of Berbice.
The timing of government’s increase in thresholds for restricted tendering should be questioned given that the Cabinet should have resigned with the December 21st passage of a no-confidence motion against the government, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has said.
The Jamaica Scorpions ended the first day of the ongoing Cricket West Indies Regional Four-Day tournament on 320-8 against the Guyana Jaguars at Providence yesterday.
Three-time defending champion Showstoppers engages Up-Top-Bosses, while Ballers Empire tackles Brothers United in the semi-final round tonight, following quarterfinal wins in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ West Demerara/East Bank Demerara Zone on Wednesday.
Just over 200 government supporters yesterday protested near the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to demand that house-to-house registration be conducted before the next general and regional elections are held.
The high Caribbean-wide demand for ‘well-seasoned, spicy foods’ and the evident market potential deriving therefrom is pushing established and emerging agro-processors in Guyana in the direction of creating food seasonings and pepper sauces in the direction of being more accommodating of those preferences, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) says in a recently released statement.
Dear Editor, The Chief Justice (ag.) has recently ruled on Compton Reid’s petition, disqualifying individuals with dual citizenship from being eligible to be members of the National Assembly of Guyana.
The football fraternity was plunged into mourning as former East Bank Football Association [EBFA] Executive Committee Member Clive Matthews Snr.
A Route 32 (Georgetown-Parika) minibus went up in flames yesterday afternoon after a collision with a utility pole at Hague, West Coast Demerara.
Dear Editor, Please refer to an article captioned `Man dead, partner critical after Princes St crash’ which appeared in the Tuesday, February 5 2019, edition of your newspaper.
A total of 210,650 commuters rely on privately operated minibuses, the backbone of the country’s public transport service, to meet their daily transportation needs, according to figures provided by the United Minibus Union (UMU) and seen by this newspaper.
Dear Editor, SN’s editorial of Sunday 3 February, 2019 raised a number of issues, albeit complementary, which invite debate.
(Field Level Media) Bojan Bogdanovic scored 29 points, and Myles Turner added 17 as the Indiana Pacers extended their winning streak to four games yesterday with a 116-92 home victory over the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers.
For as far back as local chocolate lovers can remember, the name Cadbury has always been associated with the product.
CUCUTA, Colombia/TIENDITAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela arrived in the Colombian border city of Cucuta yesterday as diplomatically-isolated President Nicolas Maduro appeared set to block its entry amid an escalating political crisis.
The Alliance for Change (AFC) would not be using state resources to campaign for the next elections, according to party officials, who also said that it already screens its donors.
Arguably the most poignant of the rationale articulated in the “Publisher’s Note” for the emergence of Who’s Who In Guyana Business is the unending dilemma of “both local and foreign investors who lose a lot of time, energy and money due to not understanding the intricacies of the local business landscape.”
(Field Level Media) Terrence Ross came off the bench to score a season-high 32 points and lead the Orlando Magic to a 122-112 win over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves last night.
Although grappling with challenges related to climate change; wide fiscal deficits and high public debt; as well as high unemployment, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) yesterday projected that the region’s economy is expected to grow by 2% in 2019 and Guyana was one of the fastest growing economies last year.
Dear Editor, I was pleased to read in another section of the press that the Government of Guyana intends to honour Ms.
OTTAWA/TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday denied a newspaper report that his office had tried to pressure the former justice minister to intervene in the prosecution of engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Former West Indies batsman, Lendl Simmons, struck a superb hundred on his first appearance in first class cricket in just over two years, as Trinidad and Tobago Red Force flourished against arch-rivals Barbados Pride, on the opening day of their seventh round match here yesterday.
One of the two suspects in the murder of taxi driver, Kelvin Walters, is being questioned by the police, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves on Wednesday told Stabroek News.
Dear Editor, I would like to add an important point to Sean Moniz’s observation regarding the ugly painted numbers defacing the roads of the Mashramani route, the work of our Mayor & City Council.
Conditions of service for employees of the majority Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana of Guyana Inc.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said yesterday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials.
The nation’s cyclists are in for a busy weekend as two events are scheduled to pedal off tomorrow and Sunday.
Dear Editor, The Attorney General has filed appeals against the Chief Justice’s ruling in two of the three cases filed in relation to the No-Confidence Motion: the case filed by the AG and the case filed by Christopher Ram.
The Chairman of Region Six, David Armogan, yesterday revoked the seats of two government regional councillors after they failed to attend the Regional Democratic Council statutory meetings for several months now.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors said yesterday they had closed a money-laundering inquiry into a son of the President of Equatorial Guinea with an arrangement to sell 25 confiscated luxury cars to fund social programmes in the former Spanish colony.
There appears to be no end to the profusion of creativity and inventiveness that pervades Guyana’s manufacturing sector, particularly in the area of condiment and beverage production, though the limited rewards for what continues to be the sustained and mostly successful efforts of the producers continue to be undermined by the customer limitations of the local market and the difficulties which locally manufactured products have been experiencing in breaking into overseas markets.
Trinidad and Tobago will be represented by four boxers when the Patrick Ford Memorial International is staged on February 17 at the National Gymnasium.
Dear Editor, Although I am not certain how Mr. Mohammed S.
Residents of certain parts of the Blygezeight area are being negatively affected by the ongoing works for the Sheriff Street-Mandela Avenue upgrade project.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The spiraling political crisis in Virginia, which threatens to take out three top state Democrats with racial scandals or sexual assault accusations, poses a stiff test for a party thriving on its growing strength with women and minorities.
It is generally accepted that the trajectory of our schools’ curriculum still requires more than just a bit of ‘tweaking’ to better prepare it to meet the developmental challenges of the twenty-first century.
Dear Editor, Following my letter questioning the lack of cultural and ethnic diversity in Caribbean Airlines’ new advertising campaign, I have taken note of the local launch featuring Machel Montano and the Park Side Steel Orchestra at Stabroek Market.
The local bodybuilding federation will have a new President when the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers is held next Saturday at the Giftland Mall.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has agreed to testify today before the House Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said yesterday, after he threatened to not show up following the panel’s warning that it could subpoena him.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – More allegations of sexual misconduct have been made against Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, with five women saying he harassed or assaulted them, in a high-profile example of the #MeToo movement in Latin America.
There is still no telling how much longer it will take for a Code of Conduct for Minibus Operators to materialise, notwithstanding the evident urgency of the need to raise service delivery standards in the privately- run public transport sector.
The numbers of children in Guyana who have been diagnosed with leprosy has more than doubled over the course of 2018, according to statistics.
Guyana’s coconut industry may still have a long road to travel if earnings from the sector are to impact meaningfully on the country’s economy, but the portents for coconut and coconut by product sales on the global market in the period are sufficiently encouraging to justify the renewed interest in the sector by both farmers and investors.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Player-of-the-Match Deandra Dottin narrowly missed out on a second One-Day International hundred as West Indies clobbered Pakistan by 146 runs in a one-sided opener of the three-match ICC Championship series here yesterday.
Dear Editor, The current councillors of the Enmore/Hope NDC inherited an unruly and difficult situation in Enmore, thanks mainly to previous Councils.
(Trinidad Express) Purported Unruly ISIS gang member Allan Muhammad died yesterday morning.
A pump attendant was on Tuesday granted bail on a charge that he wounded a man who asked him for his change after he purchased beers on his behalf.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Veteran opener Chris Gayle has made a return to the one-day squad for the first time in seven months after being named yesterday in a 14-man West Indies squad for the first two One-Day Internationals of the five-match series against England starting later this month.
Dear Editor, Please allow me, as a PPP/C supporter, to respond to Norman K.
*Prices only represent the average Wholesale Farmgate and Retail Prices at the above mentioned markets and are NOT prices set by the Guyana MArketing Corportation or Ministry of Agriculture.
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos posted a blog yetserday saying the National Enquirer’s parent company American Media Inc (AMI) tried to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos.”
GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – West Indies assistant coach Vasbert Drakes, who is responsible for the bowling group and has overseen the recent amazing performances of the young brigade, believes the “sky is the limit” for the reinvigorated unit.
Dear Editor, With the addition of water meters in the Arcadia/Mocha Area on the East Bank of Demerara, the serious question as to the cost for water in a nation with abundance comes into focus.
The top two candidates: why Indo/Afro? Besides the expected goings-on at His Excellency’s Chairman’s GECOM, I swore that the PPP itself is not really ready for very early elections that may be available.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 61-year-old man, who was left permanently scarred after doused with acid by his sister-in-law, has finally received compensation after an almost two-decade-long legal battle.
Two of the stories published in this issue of the Stabroek Business are concerned with the issue of minibuses, privately owned buses, which for many years have been serving as public transport.
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FREETOWN, (Reuters) – The brutal rape of a young girl by her uncle in Sierra Leone became the rallying point for a campaign that yesterday pushed President Julius Maada Bio to declare the prevalence of sexual violence a national emergency.
There is a well-known African proverb which says, “It takes a village to raise a child.”
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