Daily Archive: Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and other Government officials at a reception on board UK Navy Ship HMS Mersey yesterday.  

(Reuters) – Elton John’s former personal security guard has sued the British singer for sexual harassment and battery in southern California, according to court documents.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Opening batsman Jason Roy struck a career-best 78 as former champions England stormed into the World Twenty20 final with a seven-wicket romp against New Zealand today.

The Guyana Prisons Service will soon have a Special Response Team to deal with disturbances like the one that led to 17 deaths at the Camp Street penitentiary on March 3rd.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – West Indies’s tumultuous build-up to the World Twenty20 has knit the players together and they will have no better stage than tomorrow’s semi-final against India to express themselves, captain Darren Sammy said today.

Kevon Payne, a 22-year-old member of the Guyana Coast Guard was last night gunned down not far from his Sussex Street home.

Following a meeting yesterday between President David Granger and Alliance For Change (AFC) Leader Khemraj Ramjattan, proposals were crafted to deal with a complaint by the AFC that it has been “shortchanged” in allocation of seats won by the governing APNU+AFC coalition at the recent local government polls.

Police Constables Devin Singh and Roselle Tilbury-Douglas, who were accused of the brutal assault on detainee Colwyn Harding, who alleged that he was sodomised with a baton during his arrest in 2013, were yesterday cleared of all charges.

The new Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Georgetown are to be elected on Friday by the new 30-member city council.

A visiting United Kingdom naval team says it plans to assist Guyana in making the army’s flagship, the GDFS Essequibo, seaworthy again and to establish new links between the Royal Navy and the military here.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) has introduced a system which is designed to provide a hassle-free experience for arriving passengers at Timehri.

The Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL) has been making losses and needs to be retooled in order to be competitive, according to a forensic audit done into the company.

Malcolm Henry is currently in the New Amsterdam Hospital after a policeman allegedly shot him in his foot during a random search.

The police on the Essequibo Coast are conducting investigations into a hit and run accident that occurred on Monday night and left a man dead.

A file is to be sent by the police to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice on how they should proceed after the workplace accident that claimed the life of Garfield Souvenir, a Courtney Benn mechanic, almost three weeks ago.

A sixth Zika virus case has been confirmed here, according to GINA.

Two sisters of Port Mourant, Corentyne, are now traumatised after four men invaded their home on Monday night and robbed them of a quantity of jewellery and electronics.

A handyman, charged with attempting to murder another man who refused him when he begged for money, was yesterday committed to stand trial.

An ex-policeman, who was charged last year with four counts of forgery, was found guilty yesterday and fined a total of $400,000 by a city court.

While a suspect has been charged with the murder of Oriley Small, two others who had been held by police were released from custody over the weekend.

The Alliance for Change (AFC) is not happy with the seats it has been allocated for the Linden council as part of the winning APNU+AFC team which captured 15 of the 16 seats at the March 18 elections.

Two independents who challenged the governing APNU+AFC coalition in the March 18 election for the Mahaicony-Abary Neighbourhood Democratic Council lost their races.

City Magistrate Dylon Bess yesterday dismissed the charge against David Bissoon, known as “Twinkle,” whom he had barred from his court for cross-dressing.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority’s (GCAA) wide-ranging powers could be detrimental to the development of the sector, according to a recent Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-sponsored study.

Director of the Berbice Regional Health Services, Jevaughn Stephens says a plan has been devised to address drug shortages that have plagued the region recently.

Great excitement and sound family entertainment were the order of the day as the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) Easter Sunday extravanga thrilled approximately 1500 spectators at the Crabwood Creek Cricket Ground, Berbice.

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Guyana Branch, will be conducting a two-day training seminar for Members of Parliament on 31st March and 1st April, 2016.

MUMBAI, India, CMC- Flamboyant opener Chris Gayle says he wants to score a ‘big one’ for West Indies when they take on favourites India in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup tomorrow.

Following its annual general meeting on March 24, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GGCI) elected a 21-member council from which the new executive will be chosen.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Kane Williamson is too familiar with the fickleness of cricket’s shortest format to take his team’s red-hot form for granted going into today’s World Twenty20 semi-final against England.

A minibus operator was yesterday fined $10,000 for indecently exposing himself to a revenue collector, who found him sitting in his vehicle with his genitals exposed.

Just when you thought that the 2012 ICC World T20 champions West Indies had gotten their groove back by defeating three formidable opponents, England, Sri Lanka, and South Africa in Group One of the 2016 T20 ICC championship tournament in India, we were rudely fed a dose of reality on Sunday when they suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Afghanistan at Nagpur.

MUMBAI, India, CMC-Confidence is said to be high among West Indies Women as they prepare to battle against New Zealand Women in the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup in Mumbai tomorrow.

A South Ruimveldt man is now a remanded prisoner after being charged yesterday with both having and growing cannabis.

Dear Editor, It is contradictory for Guyana to have been a signatory to the December 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, yet pushing the development of the oil industry.

Guyana secured the top spot in group-5 in the opening round of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Caribbean Cup qualifiers, clinching a historic 1-0 win over hosts Puerto Rico yesterday at the Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium in Bayamon.

Dear Editor, Mr Clinton Urling fiercely rejects the idea of the Local Government Commission (‘The Local Government Commission is an insult to the local government electoral process’ SN, March 29).

President David Granger yesterday met with Hamley Case and Clarissa Riehl who have been appointed to head Guyana’s diplomatic missions in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Canada respectively.

Dear Editor, Your article, ‘AFC members accuse APNU of hogging LGE seats,’ dampened my entire Easter Monday.

Michael Singh, President of the Colts Basketball Club, said his team will not participate in any replay of the Road to Mecca Club Championship final despite Guyana Amateur Basketball Association (GABF) President Nigel Hinds stating the possibility exist.

Dear Editor, A front page headline in Sunday’s Kaieteur News (March 27) announces ‘Weeks after housing land deal inked…BK sells 100 acres to BaiShanLin for US$80M – now suing Chinese logger for outstanding US$4M.’

President David Granger on Monday urged the councillors-elect for Bartica to use their win at the March 18 Local Government Elections (LGE) as a means of promoting collaboration and the progress of the new town.

NAGPUR, India, CMC- President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron has confirmed that India will play four Test matches in the Caribbean later this year.

MUMBAI, India, CMC- Spinner Samuel Badree has returned to the number one spot ahead of the second semi-final clash in the T20 World Cup between West Indies and India tomorrow.

Dear Editor, The Stabroek News editorial of March 27 captioned ‘First-comers’ states, “One has the impression that the public’s familiarity with the history of this country is not as great as it used to be – all except the period since the Second World War, that is.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The top attorneys from Massachusetts and the U.S.

The three persons who were held last week in connection with the murder of Crabwood Creek farmer Khublall Gomes were released from police custody yesterday, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it had succeeded in unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and dropped its legal case against Apple, ending a high-stakes legal battle but leaving the broader struggle over encryption unresolved.

Dear Editor, Your editorial of Sunday, March 27, under the caption ‘First-comers’ provided a balanced and certainly less nuanced perspective on the issue of who were the first people to settle in this country.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Exciting opening batsman Lendl Simmons is set to join the West Indies for their crucial ICC World Twenty20 semi-final against hosts India tomorrow, according to media reports here.

A labourer was yesterday granted bail after denying that he stole over $100,000 in items during a break-in.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – A United Nations task force recommended in a report yesterday new ethical rules and financial disclosures for the office of the presidency of the U.N.

Dear Editor, I write concerning a letter which was published in your newspaper of March 12, captioned ‘The government should immediately freeze the granting of land leases … until the reparatory land issue is addressed’ by Mr Eric Phillips on behalf of the Guyana Reparations Committee.

Crossing: Vehicles yesterday disembarking the pontoon dubbed “Old Faithful” at the Kurupukari Crossing located on the Essequibo River.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest party announced yesterday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months.

The 2016 Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County Under-17 tournament will bowl off today with two mouthwatering clashes set to highlight the opening round of the tournament.

In what will probably be his last visit to our hemisphere before he leaves the presidency of the United States, President Obama chose two countries with which his country has sought to normalize relations, Cuba and Argentina.

Dear Editor, Ethanol (alcohol derived from sugar cane) has been used in Brazil and – Argentina for many years as an additive to gasoline to mitigate the importation cost of oil.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Nine out of 10 of Britain’s top economists working in London’s City financial district, small business and academia believe the economy will be harmed if Britain leaves the European Union, a poll said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Public sector unions triumphed before the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday when the justices preserved a vital source of cash for organized labour, splitting 4-4 on a conservative challenge that had seemed destined for success until Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last month.

Guyana’s 12-member team finished with three silver and two bronze medals at the conclusion of the 45th CARIFTA Games which was held over the Easter weekend in St.

Politikles

Hours after Walter Rodney was killed and his body taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, Forbes Burnham spoke to a well-connected young woman who was a family friend and a nurse at the hospital, saying he had heard that Rodney had been killed and wanted her to go find the body and confirm that it was indeed his.

`Monster’ kite: This Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice resident, Shazaad Mohood known as ‘Cookie Monster’ who would normally make kites to  sell, created this nine-foot one this year.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Two police officers were killed and four wounded yesterday in the western Venezuelan city of San Cristobal after they were hit by a bus driven by young men protesting a hike in public transport fares, according to government officials and Reuters witnesses.