Daily Archive: Saturday, January 23, 2016

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Regional players union WIPA has hailed Shiv Chanderpaul as a “consummate professional” who made a “priceless” contribution to the sport.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A monster blizzard that has paralyzed much of the U.S.

Beginning Saturday, January 30th, the St Joseph Mercy Hospital will be handing out a 30-day supply of vitamins to senior citizens.

Amid years of unauthorised constructions, the city is warning of the steps required for new constructions or alterations to existing buildings.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — Three minors were among 40 females arrested by the St James police in a massive operation targeting sex workers in this resort city early yesterday morning.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – British actress and first-time Academy Award nominee Charlotte Rampling said Friday that her comments calling the boycott of the Oscars protesting the absence of black actors and directors “racist toward whites,” was misinterpreted.

Now former Commissio-ner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Khurshid Sattaur was let go after he admitted to having breached his oath of office by releasing private taxpayer data, according to Chairman of the GRA Board Rawle Lucas, who said it was among several discoveries that were made.

In the wake of deepening worldwide concerns about the effect of the mosquito-borne Zika virus on the brain development of unborn babies, the US Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday added Guyana and several other Caribbean countries to its travel advisory.

A Better Hope goldsmith, whose jewellery was seized at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Tuesday because it was valued over US$10,000, has filed a $10M lawsuit against the government on the claim that his fundamental rights and freedoms were breached In a constitutional motion filed by attorney Anil Nandlall on Thursday on behalf of Richard Ramjit, it was stated that the man was questioned by numerous officers and held for four hours before his gold and silver necklace and wrist band were seized by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU).

Police are currently trying to locate a Stewartville man who allegedly killed his common-law wife in a trench during the course of a domestic dispute on Thursday.

Declaring that “our menfolk are going berserk,” acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Justice Carl Singh yesterday said while he believes that perpetrators of domestic abuse should be prosecuted, there is need for a shift in focus from punishment to education.

Consultations on the contents of a draft State Assets Recovery Agency Bill will be held soon, according to Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams, who met with representatives of a joint World Bank/United Nations mission on the proposed legislation yesterday.

Bandits yesterday staged a daring robbery of the Bank of Baroda branch located at the bottom flat of a Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara mall, carting off an undisclosed amount of cash and a gun belonging to the security guard.

A Belizean University of Guyana (UG) law student remains in a critical condition in a city hospital after he was shot twice on Thursday evening outside his Cumming’s Lodge, East Coast Demerara (ECD) residence.

Despite a recent legal opinion that government holding company NICIL is under no obligation to deposit monies it gathered into the Consolidated Fund, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran found that there was no basis in the constitution or law that permitted the retention of massive amounts by it over a number of years.

Guyanese Shivnarine Chanderpaul has finally retired from international cricket. Chanderpaul, widely considered one of the greatest batsmen to ever play for the West Indies, had been reluctant to announce his retirement after being dropped from the West Indies senior team which faced Australia in the Caribbean last year.

A member of the Guyana Police Force was remanded to prison on charges that he was found with a range of ammunition.

A man who attempted to traffic cocaine in two bottles of crème liqueur was on Thursday found guilty and sentenced to four years in jail.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force will be seeking to repeat as champions while Barbados Pride also chase their second title in three years, when the two teams clash in the final of the Regional Super50 here today.

A truck driver was yesterday granted $400,000 bail after being charged in a city court with causing death by dangerous driving.

A prisoner will be spending three more years in the Camp Street jail after he was caught with ganja just days before he was due to be released.

Three time winners Federal Winners Connection officially received their prizes for winning the third annual GT Beer Football Championship on Tuesday at the Egbert Benjamin Conference Centre in Linden.

A father and his two sons, said to have been found with the carcass of a bull they stole, were granted $25,000 bail each after they denied a larceny charge in a city court yesterday.

Head Coach of the Guyana Jaguars cricket team Esaun Crandon yesterday admitted that his team failed to tick the necessary boxes in both departments which resulted in Wednesday’s NAGICO Regional Super 50 semi-final defeat to Trinidad & Tobago Red Force.

CARACAS, (Reuers) – Venezuela’s opposition refused yesterday to approve President Nicolas Maduro’s “economic emergency” decree in Congress, saying it offered no solutions for the OPEC member-nation’s increasingly disastrous recession.

The stage is set for the Hikers Hockey Club one-day hockey festival and family fun day which will take place this month end at the Saint Stanislaus Ground, Carifesta Avenue.

A man yesterday appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer to a charge of stealing from his brother.

The Flying Ace Cycling Club (FACC) which is off to a flying start in 2016, recently announced that they will stage their third road race for this month tomorrow in Berbice.

The first component of the Sophia ‘Ring Road’ Project is nearing completion and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s Community Coordinator Neilson McKenzie says community input would be s a necessity for the project’s success.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer said yesterday urgent and decisive military action was needed to halt the spread of Islamic State in Libya, warning the jihadist group wanted to use the country as a regional base.

A man will be spending the next three weeks in jail after he admitted to assaulting his wife following a heated argument over how she was scolding their son.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, (Reuters) – Four people were killed and others injured in a school shooting in a remote part of Saskatchewan yesterday and a male suspect is in custody, Canadian police said.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the letter published in Stabroek News January 21, edition, under the headline ‘East Mahaicony being asked to fund materials, labour, transportation in order to get connected to GPL’, written by S Chester.

FATULLAH, Bangladesh, CMC – Captain Shimron Hetmyer and opener Tevin Imlach both pummeled hundreds as West Indies Under-19s turned the page on their recent whitewash at the hands of Bangladesh by crushing Scotland Under-19s in their opening official warm-up of the ICC Under-19 World Cup yesterday.

The Mayor and members of the City Council on Thursday visited several areas in the city, where they found several violations, including the obstruction of drains and illegal construction works.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – North Korea’s leaders should face trial for crimes against humanity as there has been no improvement in human rights since a U.N.

Dear Editor, In the Stabroek News edition of Saturday 16, some disgruntled persons co-signed a letter about an issue where they wanted the President to intervene.

Cristy Campbell scored a shocking upset over number one seed Aretta Dey in a semi-final match of the Rebel Tennis Club tournament winning 7-5, 6-1 Thursday evening.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Two Colombians ran a major heroin and cocaine smuggling operation to New York aboard the Royal Spanish Navy’s official training ship, paying thousands of dollars in bribes to midshipmen on the vessel, prosecutors said yesterday.

The Guyana National Shipping Corporation (GNSC) yesterday handed over six unpainted benches to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to be used for public seating at children’s play park at the Merriman Mall.

Over 1,000 students from schools in Region Nine (Upper Essequibo-Upper Takutu) received shoes yesterday under the ‘Rethink Initiative – Kind Soles Project.’

Dear Editor, All of a sudden the newspapers are brimming with news about the drought, its effects on rice cultivation and the noble efforts being made by the NDIA and RDCs to help alleviate the shortage of irrigation water.

Vish Trading Incorporated will sponsor today’s Open Medal Play tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club.

Four matches have been scheduled for today and tomorrow as the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) two-day division one competition continues at various ground in Georgetown.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Argentina’s President, Mauricio Macri, said yesterday he had told U.S.

Dear Editor, I read with great dismay that a child has died as a result of carelessness on our roads.

A 24-member contingent of Barbadian manufacturing and services companies is scheduled to arrive in Guyana next Thursday for a series of pre-arranged business-to-business meetings in what is the final leg of a multi-country Caricom trade mission.

The Caribbean Basin Security Initiative ‘s Technical Working Group, in collaboration with the US Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and implementing partner MetroStar Systems, concluded a three-day training and launch of the Caribbean Police Academy Regional Training Initiative at the Guyana Police Force Officers Training Centre on Thursday.

Dear Editor, Caribbean countries have united in many institutions established for the well-being of the region.

The Guyana Police Force on Thursday reiterated that police ranks in plain clothes and in unmarked vehicles are not authorised to stop motorists, unless they are performing duties on the roadway in front of a police station.

The secondary schools football season will officially commence today when the fourth annual Milo U20 championships kick off with four matches at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue.

ANKARA, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Tehran yesteday to discuss improvement of economic and political ties after lifting of international sanctions because of Iran’s disputed nuclear programme, state TV said.

Dear Editor, There is this sideshow, this soap opera distraction, of the pending demise of the General Secretary.

Twenty years ago the historian and politician Conor Cruise O’Brien argued that a key aspect of global security, one that was nearly always overlooked, was the United Nations’s unrelenting search for solutions to insoluble crises.

The quarter finals of the Mobile Wizard 10/10 tournament organized by the Guyana Softball League will get cracking today at the Tuschen Ground.

The Transparency Institute Guyana Inc. (TIGI) yesterday said that the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Ministry of Education has been dragging its feet on a probe into the alleged misuse by its staff of state-owned steel pans.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti called off tomorrow’s presidential election after violent protests erupted yesterday and the opposition candidate vowed to boycott the vote over alleged fraud.

JEDDAH, (Reuters) – The world’s largest Muslim body has backed Saudi Arabia in its weeks-long diplomatic spat with Iran, accusing Tehran of backing terrorism and meddling in other countries’ affairs.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soldiers are to return to the streets of T&T immediately to assist in searching and taking out criminals, and they will become a permanent fixture.