Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Shane Mc Almont, 33 years and Marlon Joseph called ‘Short Man’, 28 years, both of 111 Miles Mahdia, Potaro were charged today with Murder and Accessory to Murder respectively committed on Shawn Clarke between 2016-07-10 to 2016-07-22 at 111 Miles Mahdia, Potaro, the police say.

The police say they are investigating a serious accident which occurred about 1210h.

At approximately 20:56 hours last evening, the Guyana Power and Light says a line trip along two Kingston feeders (F3 and F4) resulted in an interruption in the supply of electricity to customers in Kingston, Cummingsburg, Albertown, Lacytown and Werk-en-Rust.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo last night stood by statements he had made in New York about discrimination against Indo-Guyanese which the APNU+AFC government has described as race-baiting.

City Hall amassed a whopping $1.29 billion in revenue for the first six months of the year but continues to operate at a deficit and some city councillors are frustrated at their inability to access detailed information on the city’s expenditure.

The Government of Guyana (GoG) yesterday condemned Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo for “race baiting,” after he claimed that there is “an assault on people of Indian origin” during a speech at an event in New York recently.

The police are continuing to work all angles and a number of theories in order to solve last week’s triple murder at Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder and Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday that a team from the force’s Major Crimes Unit (MCU) was expected to head to the area to lend assistance in the investigation.

The appointment of new foreign mission heads was based on merit and was not a form of reward, President David Granger said last evening even as he called on them to put the border controversy with Venezuela on the front burner.

Local business group Nand Persaud and Company Limited will shortly unveil what is said to be the largest solar energy project in the country to date with 220 kilowatts of energy expected to be generated to power the group’s call centre at Tain, Corentyne.

An investigation has been launched into the death of a Matthews Ridge woman who succumbed one week after giving birth via caesarean section (C-section) at the Georgetown Public Hospital, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton has said.

Over the next several weeks, the Liliendaal and South Ruimveldt drainage catchment areas will be modelled by a Dutch team, as government looks to better manage Georgetown’s drainage system.

The family of missing 24-year-old barber Navendra Hemrup, who disappeared without a trace more than one month ago, is appealing for help in locating him.

Fourteen Venezuelans, who said they entered Guyana illegally to find work in the light of the collapsing economy of their home nation, now face deportation.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) Allan Johnson yesterday denied allegations that Director of Nursing Services Sister Colleen Hicks had been insubordinate toward him.

Wales Estate sugar workers are confused about why they have not received their severance payouts, in the light of their unions saying that an interim injunction it secured against GuySuCo should not prevent the entity from paying.

Michael Thorne and Jamal McLeod, the drivers who were charged with the death of a minibus passenger after the Independence Day crash, were on Friday charged with causing a second death.

A date has been set for the start of the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against the three men held in connection with the grenade that was lobbed at the vehicle of the owner of Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall.

First Lady Sandra Granger yesterday met with United States-based early childhood education specialist and teacher Dorrie Thomas-Crawford, who has been hosting training workshops for teachers in the Buxton community for over seven years.

Youths in penal institutions including the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming, Essequibo Coast and the Juvenile Detention Centre in Georgetown are receiving help from the Ministry of Social Protection so they can be re-integrated into society.

Unbeaten half centuries from Shemaine Campbelle and Lashauna Toussaint helped Guyana hammer the Leeward Islands by 96 runs in the final round of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Women’s T20 tournament.

The three persons who were detained for questioning into the murder of handyman Ganesh Roopnarine, whose body was found along the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road more than one week ago, have been released.

Former world champion, DeMarcus ’Chop Chop’ Corley (46-27-1, 26 KO’s)’s career has seen him fight in more than 15 countries across the globe.

After nearly becoming the victim of a con artist, an Alexander Village woman is trying to sensitize other persons before they too fall prey to the latest wave of cell phone scams.

With 10 days until the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the world’s best athletes are starting to arrive in the host nation.

One week after it was struck by lightning, Radio Mabaruma, the only local radio station in Region One (Barima-Waini) is now back on air following repairs to the building.

Defending champions Wismar/ Christianburg Secondary stormed their way into the semi-finals of the Digicel Schools football championships by dismantling Region #6 winners Tutorial Secondary 6-0 in their quarterfinal fixture yesterday at the Leonora Sports Facility.

The teenager who is accused of chopping his stepfather to death during last week will be making his first court appearance today after the police received legal advice, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA’s Ethics Committee has banned Wolfgang Niersbach, the former president of the German Football Association, for one year for failing to report potential misconduct surrounding the award of the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany.

(Reuters) Basketball legend Michael Jordan spoke out on police violence yesterday and announced two $1 million grants, to civil rights group NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund and to a group that works on improving police relations with communities.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) yesterday ordered an inquest into the death of Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Special Constable Akeem Hyles, who drowned during a trip to the Kaieteur Falls three months ago.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Greatness can be hard to define but two words suffice for Olympic swimming – Michael Phelps.

The start of the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Trevor Amsterdam, who is accused of killing fugitive Jermaine Simon, has been rescheduled.

Dear Editor, I am concerned that President Granger may not be receiving adequate briefings over the Chinese transnational logger Baishanlin and the possible replacement Long Jiang Forest Industries Group (also a Chinese state-owned enterprise), with reference to the article ‘Four months on, Harmon’s China trip has produced no results’ (SN, July 25).

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – World badminton will hope a more open field and a European resurgence can inject more excitement at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and help banish memories of London’s scandal-plagued tournament where China swept all titles.

A police officer was unconscious and being readied for surgery last evening after he was accidentally run over by a car on Mandela Avenue.

Dear Editor, The Buxton First of August Movement (BFAM) kicks off its Emancipation activities this week with a Film Festival and a Symposium.

(Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic is looking forward to playing on his favoured hardcourt surface at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, but the Serb urged caution as he returns to action for the first time since his shock Wimbledon exit.

Dear Editor, Recent comments in the media on the silliness of the dress codes being enforced at government offices must not be seen as applicable only to the latter; they are also applicable to GuySuCo offices where their enforcement appears even more ridiculous.

For the first half of the year, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has recorded a 76% increase in illegal fuel seized.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Supporters of Bernie Sanders disrupted the first day of the Democratic convention yesterday, repeatedly chanting and booing mentions of Hillary Clinton’s name as the party’s hopes for a show of unity dissolved into frequent chaos.

There will be a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2006 assassination of former agriculture minister Satyadeow Sawh, his siblings and his security guard, President David Granger said last night, though he could not say when.

KABUL, Afghanistan, CMC – Afghanistan will tour West Indies for an eight-match limited overs series next June marking the first time the International Cricket Council (ICC) associate nation will face the Caribbean side in a full series.

Dear Editor, In response to our invitation to become part of the solution to social pathologies such as alcoholism, suicide, rape, drug use, child abuse, domestic violence and the like, Mr Nowrang Persaud stated, “While I unconditionally applaud all efforts to minimize the negative fallout from alcoholism, suicide, domestic and other forms of violence, I firmly believe that the chances of success in remedial or corrective actions are greater, if we work at the grass-roots level where we can more effectively ‒ as indeed I have been trying to do for the longest while ‒ help to minimize the incidence and the problems”.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia’s government and FARC rebels have pledged to improve access to land for women and ensure perpetrators of sexual violence, including rape, will not be eligible for amnesty as part of ongoing peace talks to end five decades of civil war.

Dear Editor It is palpable that the majority of Guyanese prefer the retention of the death penalty as the best deterrent against capital crime.

Even though a decision on what will happen with the recently destroyed Drop-In Centre has not been made, a source from the Ministry of Social Protection indicated that the building will not be used again and the ministry will be looking to build another structure elsewhere to house the children.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Colombian drug kingpin was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in a US prison for engaging in a multimillion dollar scheme to manufacture hundreds of tons of cocaine that he trafficked throughout the world.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – India need to dominate test matches and players cannot be content with just looking to improve, captain Virat Kohli said after the tourists thrashed West Indies by an innings and 92 runs in the first test in Antigua on Saturday.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Nineteen people are “in a state of cardiac arrest” after an attack by a knife-wielding man at a facility for the disabled in Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, a prefectural official said today.

MANCHESTER, England,(Reuters) – James Anderson, Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes took three wickets apiece as England completed a thumping 330-run win over Pakistan on the fourth day of the second test at Old Trafford yesterday.

Led by human rights activist Sherlina Nageer, a small group yesterday staged a protest outside of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts complex against the enforcement of dress codes at public buildings.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian health officials declared yesterday that the worst of a Zika outbreak in the Andean nation had passed just 10 months after its arrival, raising questions about how the virus is affecting parts of Latin America differently.

Yannick Shultz, the school boy who was struck down on Saturday afternoon, remains in the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).

Dear Editor, There seems to be a big concern that the Granger administration is militarizing the government.

HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Chinese container ship hit a wall of the new lane of the Panama Canal, a Canal Authority official and a local ship agent said yesterday, the third such incident since the expanded waterway opened one month ago amid design concerns.

Dear Editor, I laud the work (writings and grass roots activism) of Messrs Annan Boodram and Nowrang Persaud and others who seek to address issues pertaining to alcohol abuse (as penned in recent letters in SN).

I learned in journalism school that what you see often is more important than what you hear, so I decided to turn off the television volume during much of the Republican National Convention that proclaimed Donald Trump as the Republican’s presidential candidate, and to take notes.

CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) – Twelve Brazilian suspects arrested for discussing a potential attack during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were “no joke,” the prosecutor for the case told Reuters yesterday.

(Reuters) – Australia will play two spinners in the first test against Sri Lanka at Pallekele today captain Steve Smith said as the world’s top-ranked side eye a turnaround in their poor record on the slow pitches in Asia.

Sunday’s comprehensive defeat suffered by the West Indies cricket team in the first of four Test matches against a clearly superior Indian outfit provided a poignant reminder that the road back from ignominy to international cricketing respectability in Test cricket will be long and difficult, and that it may well take a generation or more ‒ if indeed those days do return even that quickly.

Russian language classes are to be launched today at the National Library in Georgetown at 5.30 pm.