Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 15, 2016

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Harrison Ford and director Steven Spielberg are teaming up to make a fifth “Indiana Jones” action-adventure movie, due for release in July 2019, Walt Disney Co said today.

Surama, an indigenous community, set against the backdrop of the Pakaraima Mountains, sits on five square miles of savannah lands. 

MUMBAI, India, CMC- West Indies, boasting a flamboyant opener and a powerful line-up of allrounders, will launch their quest for the T20 World Cup when they face England here on Wednesday.

President David Granger, last evening, said that his first task for the new Linden Town Council after Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGEs), is to ensure that every child attends school.

Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira today rejected an explanation from Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on why Parliament has been adjourned until May 4th.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – The United States unveiled new measures today to make it far easier for Americans to visit Cuba and eased limits on the use of U.S

(Trinidad Guardian) Suspended Police Constable Valentine Eastman will have to stand trial before a judge and jury on 13 charges of human trafficking involving three Colombian women.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on Sept.

Murder accused Basil Morgan yesterday said that the spread of the fire which led to the death of 17 inmates at the Camp Street prison could have been the result of water being cut from the facilities by prison officials.

President/Founder of the Camal International Home for Homeless and Battered Women Carmen Kissoon was robbed of her 60-year-old diamond and gold ring, along with other cash and valuables at her Albion Public Road home, just after midnight on Sunday.

A single mother of a minor boy has expressed disgust and disappointment after her son was placed in the lockups at the Springlands Police Station over the weekend.

The lifeless body of a farmer, his limbs bound, was found in his Hill Foot, Soesdyke/Linden Highway home yesterday afternoon following a suspected robbery.

There has been a 20% decrease in the number of registered disciplined service members who voted on March 8, when compared with the numbers from last year’s general and regional elections.

Christina Edwards, a daughter of the Rupununi, felt so strongly about representing her community at this Friday’s polls that she resigned from her post as Discount and Securities Officer at the Republic Bank at Lethem.

A man who stripped his wife naked and beat her unconscious was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in jail after a jury found him guilty of attempting to murder the woman.

A Number 77 Village, Corriverton man yesterday appeared in the Springlands Magistrate’s Court charged with murdering his reputed wife on March 8.

Though the same amount of murders have taken place between January 1 and February 29 this year, in comparison with the same period last year, the number of murders committed during robberies has increased.

There has been a slight decrease in road deaths for the first two months of this year, according to the Guyana Police Force.

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) officer who led the search of Barry Dataram’s Diamond Housing Scheme property, where authorities say 129.230 kilogrammes of cocaine (equivalent to 284 pounds) was found in seafood, yesterday began his testimony at the trial of the accused.

Dr Carl Max Hanoman was elected Chairman yesterday, when the new Board of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) was sworn in at the facility’s Resource Centre.

While acknowledging that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are not accorded equal rights in the work environment, Social Protection Minister Volda Lawrence last week called for their inclusion in the promotion of gender equality.

Candidates for the First-Past-The-Post election on Friday in East La Penitence-Riverview have underlined drainage as a key issue in their flood-prone areas.

Though locals are preferred, the government of Guyana is actively considering hiring foreign prosecutors to assist in the prosecution of cases which may arise from the more that 50 audits instituted under the new administration.

President David Granger says government has not yet finalized a plan for the retrenched workers of Wales Sugar Estate.

Guyana is willing to approach the United States government to facilitate access to convicted drug lord Roger Khan if local investigations provide sufficient cause, President David Granger says.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – CARICOM is actively pursuing legal advice in its ongoing battle with the West Indies Cricket Board as it ups the ante in its quest to have the controversial recommendations of its Governance Review report implemented.

Bernadette Nero yesterday recounted that her former partner, Calvin Bailey, fatally chopped her infant son, Shaquan, during an attack on her.

Three months after the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) first submitted its request for salary increase it is still awaiting an official response from the government of Guyana.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Captain Darren Sammy says West Indies are still to put together the “complete game” despite beating Australia by three wickets in their final official warm-up of the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Rain, dropped catches and dogged batting combined to help leaders Guyana Jaguars secure a precious draw against Leeward Islands yesterday and preserve their advantage heading into the final round of the Regional four-day championship next weekend.

When the calendar flipped to 2016, the UG Wolves’ resolution was to win every local tournament they competed in.

PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee yesterday said that the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is not doing enough to educate the nation on this week’s local government elections.

Members of the outgoing Mayor and City Council (M&CC) said their farewells yesterday during their final statutory meeting as local government elections will be held on Friday.

Former national junior table tennis star Dillon Mahadeo is now officially the “The Fittest Man in Guyana” after winning the 2016 E-Networks Fitness Challenge at the National Park on Sunday.

The Number 52 Survival team won last Sunday’s Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) Under-16 tournament played at the 3 Doors Strikers Club court, D’Edward Village, West Coast Berbice.

Two sisters from the Dominican Republic have been fined by a city magistrate for overstaying in Guyana.

A new champion will be crowned in the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation Road to Mecca National Club Championship as Retrieve Raiders downed holders Pacesetters 65-56 in Sunday’s semi-final.

Region Nine Chairman Brian Allicock yesterday accused the Regional Executive Officer (REO) Carl Parker of overstepping his mandate in the administration of the region.

A labourer was yesterday sentenced to do four months community service for stealing his boss’s money.

Dear Editor, I once heard someone refer to these high-tech multi-feature cell phones as the book of good and evil.

Wicket-keeper/batsman Dexter Solomon scored a defiant 92 for the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) who played to a draw against the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) in the lone Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/GISE/Star Rentals/Trophy Stall first-division match played last weekend.

A University of Guyana student was placed on $75,000 bail when he appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on a charge of unlawful and malicious wounding.

Guyana’s boxing drought at the Olympic Games continues. The nation’s chances of punching tickets to the 2016 Olympic Games went out the window this past weekend when Desmond Amsterdam and Dennis Thomas lost their respective bouts at the American Boxing Confederation’s (AMBC) Olympic Qualifier in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dear Editor, Mr Freddie Kissoon writes, “I have seen some pretty inept ‒ or to be kind to Henry Jeffrey ‒ naïve political analyses, one of which was too shocking for me, and I thought my objection should be published so when historians write they could make use of it; thus I replied.

HAMILTON, Bermuda (Jamaica Observer) — Members of Parliament in Bermuda were yesterday morning locked out of the House of Assembly as the protest against the Pathways to Status initiative stepped up a gear.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Man-of-the-Match John Campbell snatched a five-wicket haul and then smashed a cameo, unbeaten half-century as Jamaica Scorpions broke their four-game losing slump in the Regional four-day championship with a convincing nine-wicket win over Windward Islands Volcanoes here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Mayor Hamilton Green’s letter published in the Kaieteur News on March 8, captioned ‘Hamilton Green gives his take on Rodney’s politics and death’ and in Stabroek News on March 10 titled ‘Rodney’s death was a terrible accident’ was not new.

With more than 4,000 acres of rice already dead in the Mahaicony and Mahaica areas and the crop cycle in the harvesting stage, the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA) has decided to cease the pumping of water into the system.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Any decision to arrest Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be made by Federal Judge Sergio Moro, who oversees a sweeping investigation into kickbacks at state-run oil firm Petrobras and approved the detention of dozens of senior executives, a judge in Sao Paulo ruled yesterday.

MOSCOW/GENEVA (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue yesterday that “the main part” of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as UN-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war.

MOIN, Macedonia (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants marched out of a Greek transit camp, hiked for hours along muddy paths and forded a rain-swollen river to get around a border fence and cross into Macedonia, where they were detained yesterday, authorities said.

Dear Editor, To say that local government elections are long overdue is an understatement, but despite the pronouncements by the various stakeholders, myself and scores of residents in the Eccles Housing Scheme around the First Avenue and Fourth Street area are extremely concerned about an incident which occurred on Friday, 11th March.

A 34-year-old taxi driver, who was charged on December 21 with fraudulent conversion, was on Friday found guilty by Magistrate Judy Latchman.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine prosecutors are probing close to 100 companies, among them Brazilian firms, in an investigation into the suspected payment of bribes to government officials, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation said.

(Trinidad Express) – Toilet paper and fast food are being traded for guns between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, Asst Commissioner of Police Surajdeen Persad has said.

Dear Editor, I read in your Sunday edition (March 13) the letter by Senior Counsel Bryn Pollard about the announced preference of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo to issue additional radio licences rather than revoke those issued by former President Jagdeo (‘PM has taken wise approach in relation to broadcast licences’).

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic accused of participating in a scheme to bribe a former UN General Assembly president is expected to plead guilty tomorrow, according to a court filing.

NAGPUR, (Reuters) – New Zealand are bracing for a trial by spin when they open their World Twenty20 campaign against hosts India today, skipper Kane Williamson said on the eve of their Super 10 fixture.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama, in an interview that aired yesterday, voiced concern about the struggling Venezuelan economy and said he did not want to see the country fail despite the tense relations between Washington and Caracas.

CHENNAI, India, CMC – West Indies Women will begin their Twenty20 World Cup campaign later this week with question marks over their batting, after another brittle performance left them with a 43-run defeat to Australia Women in their official warm-up game here yesterday.

Politikles

A view of north Kingston yesterday

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The government and the opposition have pledged to take a bipartisan approach to deal with the country’s crime situation.

Dear Editor, The overwhelming majority of responses to and comments on the media coverage of the Walter Rodney CoI report have been relatively balanced.

When Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto compared Republican hopeful Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler this week, he blew it.

Those Guyanese who were not afforded the opportunity of being present to witness at least some of the hearings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service would have been denied an important opportunity to arrive at a helpful understanding of the condition of the public service including, particularly, some of the reasons why it is the way it is in the first place.