Articles published on Tuesday, March 1, 2016
(Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton rolled up a series of wins yesterday, as the two presidential front-runners took a step toward capturing their parties’ nominations on the 2016 campaign’s biggest day of state-by-state primary voting.
At about 1730h. today, police ranks stationed at Matthews Ridge, NWD, went to arrest Dennis Marks who was wanted pending investigations into a report of alleged rape.
The Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education is currently training 29 volunteers to become tour guides for Georgetown, GINA said.
Minister within the Ministry of Communities Dawn Hastings-Williams on a recent outreach exercise to Smith Creek, Barima River, Region One told residents that every child there must attend school, GINA said.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Rolling Stones will perform a free outdoor concert in Havana on March 25, the band’s publicist announced today, a milestone event in a country where the communist government once banned the group’s music as an “ideological deviation.”
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) today said that 22 bids have been submitted to provide 1.5 MW of renewable energy to Bartica.
(Trinidad Guardian) “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment,” was the Bible quote Darlene Gordon used in describing her son Ronaldo Gordon’s tragic death.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China aims to lay off 5-6 million state workers over the next two to three years as part of efforts to curb industrial overcapacity and pollution, two reliable sources said, Beijing’s boldest retrenchment programme in almost two decades.
Accused by self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram of involvement in the drug trade and corruption, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) last evening issued a denial and called on him to provide sworn statements for past and ongoing investigations.
A Sophia man was shot dead during the wee hours of yesterday morning, moments after he held up a licensed firearm holder and his sister as they exited a popular city night spot and demanded their valuables.
Government is currently looking at the development of the hydropower site at Tiger Hill, which has the capacity to adequately supply Linden with electricity, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson told the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources yesterday.
A Plantation Grove woman was yesterday placed on $650,000 bail by a city court after she denied a charge that she trafficked an underage girl for labour exploitation.
The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said last night that it had found no evidence to support an allegation of rape made against some of its ranks by a resident of Lethem.
After calling for a probe of a senior detective over alleged corrupt activities and criminal ties, PPP Executive Secretary Zulfikar Mustapha and General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday told police that they had no evidence to offer.
Describing youth crime and violence as “two enemies of our people,” Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday called on Caricom member states to join hands and make a committed effort to find remedies.
The body of a man which was found at the Whim foreshore almost one month ago was yesterday identified by family members who are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination to discover what resulted in his death.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday advised the police to charge attorney Keisha Chase with causing death by dangerous driving.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Openers Johnson Charles and Andre Fletcher punished Zimbabwe with exhilarating unbeaten half-centuries to life West Indies to an emphatic 10-wicket victory in their second warm-up game here yesterday.
Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a story appearing on page 9 of your Monday, February 29, edition under the caption: ‘Nandlall plans to challenge “even votes” bill passage’, and I wish to address a few matters in response.
The Ministry of Communities through the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is now offering a ‘50/50’ special payment option to recipients of government house lots valued $3 million and less, in residential areas.
EAST LONDON, South Africa, CMC – West Indies Women wasted two handsome partnerships as they crashed to a 35-run defeat to South Africa Women, in the final One-Day International of the three-match series here yesterday.
Dear Editor, Investigative Commissions of Inquiry (CoI) are established by governments to investigate issues of national importance.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Rahkeem Cornwall’s half-century was in vain as Leeward Islands Hurricanes went down to Trinidad and Tobago Red Force by nine wickets, on the final day of their eighth round contest here yesterday.
Three entrepreneurs will be battling for a seat in the commercial section of the city at March 18th’s local government elections in a race that pits a Benschop for Mayor candidate against contestants from APNU+AFC and the PPP/C.
Pele FC and Buxton United battled to a scoreless draw when the League Finale section in the GFF Stag Beer Elite League continued on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.
LONDON (Reuters) – French scientists say they have proved a link between the Zika virus and a nerve syndrome called Guillain-Barre, suggesting countries hit by the Zika epidemic will see a rise in cases of the serious neurological condition.
Parkside Steel Orchestra reigned supreme on Sunday when the curtains came down on the annual Pan-O-Rama competition at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Dear Editor, Mark Benschop is running a politically misleading campaign. His logo says, ‘Team Benschop for Mayor,’ when he is actually running as a councillor.
KINGSTON (Reuters) – Jamaican reservist soldiers reinforced security at electoral offices yesterday after a final count of votes cast in last week’s general election narrowed the winning party’s majority to one seat in the heavily indebted Caribbean nation.
The first thing you discern about the Gouveia siblings, Gerry (Jnr) and Kevin, is the consummate ease with which they handle questions about their vision for Roraima Airways Inc, the company which was created ‘from scratch’ by their father, Captain Gerry Gouveia, which, he says, will inevitably pass into the hands of his two sons.
The UG Wolves men’s rugby club is not going to fly under the radar of any team in 2016.
President David Granger on Saturday promised residents of Kortberaad, East Bank Berbice that he will provide the material for them to construct bus sheds and support the desilting of trenches in the community in order to improve drainage, even as he encouraged them to engage in self-help projects.
Dear Editor, I am writing you regarding the publication of a letter to the editor published in your newspaper on February 29, entitled ‘Pleasant experience at Solid Waste Department.’
Two hundred and ninety-five graduating police constables were yesterday urged to be exceptional in their service to the nation during a ceremony held at the Guyana Police Force’s Sports Club Ground at Eve Leary.
(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Sunday’s National Basketball Association games.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The victory celebration over, new FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s first major decision in charge of the troubled world football organisation will be to appoint a secretary general, effectively a chief executive, to run day-to-day operations.
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scores of Bangladeshi women have been lured with the promise of a good job in the Middle East and then trafficked to war-torn Syria, where they are forced into domestic or sex work, a senior Bangladeshi police official said.
Dear Editor, It was reported that the Tax Reform Committee (TRC) set up by the Ministry of Finance has made its recommendations in a recent report.
Dear Editor, In early January, I applied to renew my driver’s licence.
WASHINGTON – A Donald Trump rally in Virginia was repeatedly disrupted yesterday by protesters, including some from the Black Lives Matter movement, in a stark display of the divisions the Republican front-runner’s presidential campaign has long been accused of sowing.
Ten Guyanese businesswomen yesterday began an eight months’ engagement which will see them better able to advance their ventures.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities were searching yesterday for a container of radioactive material used for industrial X-rays that was stolen along with a car in central Mexico this weekend, the latest in a series of such case in the country.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Veteran Joe Johnson signed with the Miami Heat on Saturday and on Sunday the versatile swing man was thrown right into the fire, delivering in a victory over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
Mike Tyson, who was the accused in three separate carjackings, was yesterday sentenced to 58 months in jail after being found guilty at the conclusion of his trial.
Dear Editor, Cricket governance is, to use a phrase I first heard from, ironically, the current US President, ‘above my pay scale,’ so I will avoid writing about it, other than to note that the people who have written reports and recommendations at the request of the WICB, for the WICB, can fairly be described as the best and the brightest.
The voir dire being conducted to determine the admissibility of a statement that police say was given by Daymeion Millington, one of the five accused in the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her family, continued yesterday.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – World indoor 1500 metres champion Abeba Aregawi has been suspended from Swedish athletics after she tested positive for a banned substance, the national federation said yesterday.
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter titled, ‘The Rodney commission report should be released without delay,’ (SN, February 21).
KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – In a dense and dusty neighbourhood in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, eight young girls lined up against a cement wall, touching their hands to their faces in prayer before boxing practice began.
Adafi Campbell, who was held by police after he allegedly tried to smuggle ganja to a prisoner in the holding cell at the Georgetown courts, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Justice Minister, Jose Eduardo Cardozo, plans to resign by today, fed up with rising attacks from his Workers’ Party over a wide-reaching police probe into corruption that has ensnared a number of party officials, two presidential sources told Reuters yesterday.
Dear Editor, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has become a household name since he rescued a 31-year-old woman from Richmond New Housing Scheme.
(Reuters) – Canada’s Davis Cup hopes received a double blow yesterday when world number 13 Milos Raonic and top doubles player Daniel Nestor pulled out of next weekend’s first-round tie against France in Guadeloupe.
(Reuters) – George Kennedy, an American actor who won an Academy Award for playing a hulking chain gang convict who pummels Paul Newman in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke and later earned laughs in the Naked Gun comedy films, has died, media outlets reported yesterday.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The office of Colombia’s investigator general said yesterday it had started an investigation into possible failures on the part of the defence minister and high levels of the military which may have left civilians unprotected during a visit by leftist rebel leaders in the country’s north.
Dear Editor, I met the late Balram Persaud after his return to the Guyana Police Force where I was serving as that organisation’s first Public Relations and Press Officer.
Caricom Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque has been reappointed for a new five–year term.
(Barbados Nation) – As health and environment officials focus their energies on Zika, it’s the disease that brought the Aedes Aegypti mosquito to notoriety that has been wreaking havoc on the population.
Brazil’s political and economic crisis has taken a new turn for the worse with the arrest of the ruling party’s star electoral strategist and presidential confidant Joao Santana, raising the possibility of an impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff or early elections.
Dear Editor, Reference is made to Dr Baytoram Ramharack’s missive ‘Jagan’s legacy contributed to our current politically dysfunctional society’ (SN, Feb 25).
LONDON, (Reuters) – Alex Ferguson famously described the Premier League title run-in as “squeaky-bum time” and leaders Leicester City and second-placed Tottenham Hotspur look best-placed to handle the pressure.
Last week brought some additional revelations from President David Granger about his administration’s ambitions for a Public Service Staff College which, taken together with the ensuing Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service, appear to provide the best ever possibility for the comprehensive reform of a public service which, over the years, has become weak and, in some areas, largely ineffective.
ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Cardinal George Pell, the highest-ranking Vatican official to testify on systemic sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Roman Catholic Church, said yesterday that he has the full backing of Pope Francis.
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Dwayne “Brown Suga” Roberts dunked his way to MVP in the just-concluded Linden Amateur Basketball Association/104.3 POWER FM Mash basketball championship at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) Hard-court.
Protecting his castle: This ‘E’ Field Sophia resident lowers his drawbridge, which he said he installed for security reasons.
