Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 14, 2015

A team from the Scout Association of Guyana (SAG) paid a courtesy call on President David Granger, ahead of their participation in the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Japan later this month.

The Guyana Police Force working with a concerned citizen was able to track several persons wanted for the murders of businessman Ganesh Ramlall at La Jalousie, WCD, and Travis  Rudder at Nandy Park, EBD, and the armed  robbery on a Judge at her home at Felicity, ECD, to a house at Craig, EBD.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A panel appointed by India’s top court proposed two-year suspensions on the Chennai and Rajasthan franchises of the Indian Premier League today in a corruption scandal that erupted two years ago.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal today, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East, and which Israel called an “historic surrender”.

Drug trafficking and other transnational crimes will received increased attention, Guyana’s forensic capability addressed and ensuring safe and secure prisons boosted under an agreement signed yesterday with the US Government, which provides a further US$50,000 to tackle these issues.

A two-family concrete house at Crane Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara went up in flames around 8.15 am yesterday and five people have been left homeless.

A Melanie Damishana couple lost their home and possessions yesterday after a fight between them ended with the house going up in flames.

Fire damaged a Community Centre building at Hope Street, Tiger Bay, in Georgetown but a prompt response by the fire service saw the blaze contained.

A weekend of partying ended tragically for five close friends when their vehicle crashed into a concrete fence at Mahaicony, killing one and leaving the others injured on Sunday night.

Charles Anthony Woolford was yesterday sentenced to 13 years in jail for the 2009 killing of his beautician wife Latoya Conway-Woolford.

Guyana will formally inform Caricom shortly of its disaffection with the new decree issued by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, which replaced the infamous May 26, Decree 1787.

A suspect was yesterday charged with carrying out last week’s violent robbery against Justice Nicola Pierre and her husband Mohamed Chand during a home invasion at Felicity, East Coast Demerara, and shooting at a security guard.

It is highly likely that an electrical spark ignited propane gas and caused the fire that razed the Camp and Robb streets complex on Sunday morning, Fire Chief Marlon Gentle has confirmed.

Former home affairs minister Clement Rohee yesterday accused the Stabroek News of attempting to “sugar coat the poor management of the security sector” of the current administration in its July 9 editorial, which was critical of his tenure as minister.

Former murder accused Orpheus Johnson was yesterday faced with two new murder charges, including the killing of Travis Rudder, who was fatally shot at his Nandy Park residence in an attack last month that left his fiancée and young child wounded.

A man was yesterday charged with trying to smuggle ganja through a shipment to the interior.

A businessman and a vendor were yesterday remanded to prison after being accused of forcing a woman into sex work as they held her against her will at an interior location.

Local coordinators of the Hero CPL yesterday promised a fun-filled yet safe leg the tournament which bowls off tomorrow at the Guyana National Stadium.

A seven-goal blitz from Kelsey Benjamin propelled Chase Academy to a 9-0 drubbing of St.

Police yesterday discovered a gun and matching round in a Riverview, Ruimveldt home but were unable to arrest the homeowner as the man jumped into the Demerara River.

Guyana Jaguars Assistant Coach and Manager Rayon Griffith has confirmed that Barbadians Ryan Hinds and Javon Searles are scheduled to arrive in Guyana during the first week of August ahead of the 2015/15 Professional Cricket league (PCL) season.

The autopsies on the bodies of the woman and her two-month-old baby found dead at their Grove, East Bank Demerara apartment on Saturday have been postponed until tomorrow.

A bus driver and a mason were placed on $50,000 bail each yesterday after pleading not guilty to charges of smoking cannabis.

Guyanese Sociologist and former University of Guyana Lecturer Dr. George Kenford Danns has now added a new title to his illustrious career.

Swimmers, Onika George and Omar Adams will push for the podium when the swimming segment of the 2015 Pan American Games starts today at the spanking new CIBC Aquatics Centre & Field House in Toronto, Canada.

A Charlestown resident allegedly found by the police with a quantity of cannabis concealed in the floor boards of his shack was yesterday remanded to prison.

A team of doctors and nurses sought to raise awareness for the Golden Grove Health Centre through a medical outreach exercise held yesterday at the Diamond tarmac.

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) installed a Fully Automatic Timing (FAT) System at the National Track and Field Centre on Saturday and took it for a successful test run a day later with a relay festival.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – Sepp Blatter is set to face the media in Zurich on July 20 for the first time since he announced last month that he would step down as president of soccer’s governing body FIFA.

A new programme themed ‘Be Good To People’ was yesterday launched by the Ministry of Social Protection with the main aim of empowering and improving the lives of women and girls across Guyana.

Defending three-time national champions Christianburg/Wismar kept their hopes alive of a fourth consecutive championship overcoming Region #3 holders Uitvlugt Secondary on penalty kicks Sunday in the Digicel Secondary Schools championships national playoffs.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s teenage fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman has been rewarded for his strong limited overs performances with a call-up to the squad for next week’s first test against South Africa.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, says the board will continue to stage town hall meetings across the region and it tries to integrate the public into its decision making.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – In-form batsman Ambati Rayudu has been ruled out of the remainder of India’s tour of Zimbabwe with a muscle injury, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.

GLENDALE, Pheonix, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s coach Stephen Hart says the Soca Warriors have defied their critics by reaching the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

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(Reuters) – American sprinter Justin Gatlin could win world championships and go undefeated for a second consecutive season but he would still not be ineligible for the sport’s athlete of the year award, the IAAF said.

BRUSSELS/ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party today furious at his capitulation to German demands for one of the most sweeping austerity packages ever demanded of a euro zone government.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Armed with what Goran Ivanisevic calls a “Balkan mentality” and “positive arrogance”, Novak Djokovic replaced the heartbreak of losing the French Open with the joy of hoisting the Wimbledon trophy in the space of just five weeks.

(Trinidad Express) – The situation in the Prison Service has become so “grim” that consideration is being given for it to receive assistance from officers of the Police Service or even the Defence Force until a more permanent solution can be reached.

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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Fuel shortages in war-torn Yemen could cause more deaths than the continuing conflict, which rages on three days after the start of a United Nations-brokered humanitarian truce, an international aid agency said today.

Dear Editor, How long will it take for the Ministry of Education to reexamine the automatic promotion policy that is failing our children?

PAU, France, (Reuters) – Chris Froome is fresher, better prepared and stronger than he was when he won the Tour de France in 2013.

VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six major powers to hold a comprehensive meeting at 0800 GMT today to discuss a possible final nuclear deal, which will curb the country’s nuclear work in exchange for lifting sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Dear Editor, As a citizen I am deeply concerned about the crime situation which seems to be spiralling out of control in this dear land of ours.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed dozens of people and burned down homes in two villages in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, police and a security source said yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Nine Brazilian cyclists looking to get in some Pan American Games training had a run-in with Toronto police on the weekend after they were spotted riding along one of the city’s highways.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Paceman Mitchell Starc took pain-killing injections for his strained ankle to bowl through Australia’s opening Ashes defeat in Cardiff but is confident he will be fit for the second match at Lord’s, captain Michael Clarke has said.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities must have colluded with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to enable the drug lord to escape from a maximum security prison on Saturday night, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I was thrilled to witness the great event that took place on Friday at the Theatre Guild.

It will take a great deal more than last week’s high-level meeting involving President David Granger and Vice President Ramjattan and their security top men to roll back the upsurge of criminal activity, particularly armed robberies involving shootings, some fatal, that have been occurring over the past two months or so.

Dear Editor, Street cricket is becoming a nuisance in many communities.