Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Country Manager of Exxon Mobil Corporation, Jeff Simons today reaffirmed that the company will not start the actual extraction of oil from its huge offshore well for another five years.

ST.JOHN’s, Antigua, CMC-Promising Antiguan fast bowler Alzarri Joseph is set to make his Test debut after he was drafted into the West Indies side for the current home series against India.

(Reuters) – Chris Gayle and Shane Watson need no introductions in cricket-playing countries but while they are unlikely to become household names in the U.S.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Director Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960s Western “The Magnificent Seven” is expected to kick off the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Muslim woman yesterday won a landmark judgment against a security firm for discrimination on the basis of her religious beliefs.

Chairperson of the recently-established Bid Protest Committee (BPC) Renee McDonald has resigned even as the body’s first case—Cevons Waste Management’s protest against the Ministry of Communities over the award of a $221M Haags Bosch landfill maintenance contract—awaits a decision.

The main suspect in the Black Bush triple murder has been held and he is the owner of the same type of weapon that inflicted the deadly wounds.

Just two days after severed body parts suspected to belong to Mahdia miner Shawn Clarke were discovered, two men were charged in a city court with his murder.

The ferry,  Sabanto  suffered extensive damage after it collided with the Supenaam Stelling last evening and will be out of service until further notice.

A visiting St. Lucian Cub Scout has been critically injured, while another and his mother escaped with minor injuries after they were struck by a car yesterday afternoon near the Scout Association of Guyana headquarters at Woolford Avenue.

A Bush Lot woman was yesterday charged with trafficking a teenaged girl for prostitution.

An East Canje taxi driver is now hospitalised after being stabbed multiples times about his body during an attempted carjacking.

Keith Ferrier, who was accused of setting fire to the Ministry of Health (MoH) building in 2009, was yesterday cleared of the charge after a city court found that the prosecution had no case against him.

The body of an unidentified man was pulled out from a trench at Grant Street, Paradise, East Coast Demerara yesterday morning.

Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Sydney Allicock has pitched the idea of a bridge across the Essequibo River at Kurupukari along with an attached  hydro-electric generating facility to power the bridge, nearby communities and the Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre.

Tenders were opened yesterday for an upgrade to the Diamond Hospital on the East Bank Demerara.

Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council of Region Five, Vickchand Ramphal yesterday appealed to Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan and President David Granger to “intervene incisively” in bringing an end to the “disastrous”  disruption of its statutory meetings.

A decision on the renewal of Barama Company Limited’s (BCL) Investment Development Agreement is expected to be made in a few weeks.

Anisa Mohammed produced another sterling all-round performance which allowed Trinidad and Tobago to hoist the 2016 West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional T20 title after beating Jamaica by two wickets in Monday night’s final played at the Providence National Stadium.

Manager of the Guyana Junior Squash Team to the recent Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in the Cayman Islands Garfield Wiltshire said the recent performance of securing Guyana’s 12th overall Team Title was outstanding and that the players performed beyond expectations.

Proposed new by-laws to govern the transport and discharge of shipping containers in the city would set fees of up to $45,000 for 40-ft containers.

A post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted today to determine the cause of death of Relisa Sam, the young woman who died on Sunday, two weeks after undergoing a caesarean-section (c-section) delivery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, a relative has said.

German’s Restaurant became the latest sponsors of the Guyana Under-21Women’s Baseball team which is preparing to make history come next month when they visit Halifax, Canada to play in an invitational tournament from August 4-8.

Customs Officers of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were implored to keep a careful watch on shipments into and out of the country for material that can be used to create nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

Jetty Gunners were crowned the second annual `Ballers in the Summer Street Football Champions’ after edging Sparta Boss 1-0 via penalty kicks in the final on Saturday at the Pouderoyen Tarmac.

The preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge against Regan Rodrigues, the man accused of murdering political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, is coming to an end, with the prosecution expected to close its case by the end of next week.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has decided not to attend the torch ceremony opening the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, an aide said yesterday, one day after she said in an interview she would not play second fiddle to interim President Michel Temer.

Mahdia businesspersons earlier this month complained to the government about high transportation costs, the state of the road to Linden and the lack of banking facilities.

(Reuters) – Germany’s Olympic discus champion Robert Harting has launched a stinging attack on International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, describing him as part of the problem in the fight against doping.

Dear Editor, I refer to a report in yesterday’s SN. You reported that 14 Venezuelans appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan who ruled that they would be fined $10,000 and then deported.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian drug cheats will be competing at next month’s Rio Olympics, the whistleblowers who helped uncover the country’s doping scandal have told the BBC.

The swift action of a businessman thwarted a robbery attempt at a West Ruimveldt shop last Thursday, resulting in a would-be bandit being shot in a crossfire.

PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party’s 2016 nomination for the White House yesterday, becoming the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in U.S.

Four months after undergoing what was supposed to be a simple surgery to remove gallstones, a resident of Shulinab, in South Central Rupununi, has been reduced to a vegetative state, leaving her family with mounting medical bills and little hope for her recovery.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa (CSA) will formally introduce racial quotas at national team level, the board said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – New York state’s attorney general yesterday said his office will not comply with a subpoena issued by U.S.

Dear Editor, We acknowledge a letter, as published in your paper, on behalf of Digital Technology, which called on us to remove “a GTT sign”, at their Diamond location (‘After two months GTT has not fixed dangerously leaning sign’ SN, July 22).

Dear Editor, I read a recent article by Samuel Goolsarran in Stabroek News titled ‘The social partnership option for national development-Guyana’.

(Reuters) – India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin dethroned Pakistan’s Yasir Shah to top the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) test rankings after his match-winning display against West Indies in the first test.

As the probe into the murder of Gafoor’s Manager Terry Lackhan continues, the Guyana Police Force was yesterday granted an additional 72-hours to keep the prime suspect in custody.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration announced a broad expansion on Tuesday of a programme to let people fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras enter the United States as refugees, and said Costa Rica agreed to temporarily shelter some of those with no other recourse.

Dear Editor, I leap in full-blooded support of Mr Lincoln Lewis’s missive ‘The Region Five Chairman has committed no infraction in relation to his official duties’ (SN, July 24) which addresses the present face-off between the Region 5 Chairman and his councillors – “a matter that has no place in the formal business of the council.”

SPRINGFIELD, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson forged an epic duel in the final round of the British Open and they ride into the season’s final major, the PGA Championship at Baltusrol, on a wave of momentum and inextricably linked in golf lore.

The trial of former minister in the PPP/C administration Dr Jennifer Westford and her former aide Margaret Cummings, for the alleged theft of over $600 million from the government, will commence after statements are handed over next week.

SAINT-ETIENNE-DU-ROUVRAY, France,  (Reuters) – Knife-wielding attackers interrupted a French church service, forced the priest to his knees and slit his throat yesterday, a murder made even more shocking as one of the assailants was a known would-be jihadist under supposedly tight surveillance.

A date was yesterday set for the commencement of the trial of Dwayne Griffith, the teenager who is alleged to have caused the death of a woman through dangerous driving.

Dear Editor, In an interview with LRTVS Channel 10 in Berbice, the Regional Vice-Chairman of Region Six, Mr Dennis De Roop accused the Kilcoy/Hampshire Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) of not being ‘proactive’.

(Reuters) – Australia’s bowlers ripped through Sri Lanka’s brittle batting order to dismiss the home side for 117 on an eventful first day of the opening test at Pallekele yesterday that also saw the visitors lose their openers for just seven runs.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government sought yesterday to scupper a push by the opposition to oust him this year via a referendum, while his opponents called for protests to demand the vote.

Magistrate Fabayo Azore yesterday said that sufficient evidence has been presented against Edward Skeete and Nabadingi Gobin, who are charged with fatally shooting a man in Tucville last year.

I argued last week that the physical and institutional infrastructure and processes within the education system have changed significantly in recent times.

FLORIDA, CMC- T20 superstar Chris Gayle says he hopes the historic Florida leg of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) scheduled to start tomorrow will help to raise the profile of the tournament.

MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – Suicide bombers killed at least 13 people at the gates of the African Union’s main peacekeeping base in the Somali capital yesterday, police said, in an attack claimed by the Islamist militants of al Shabaab.

It might have been surprising to observers that so soon after the 37th Caricom Heads of Government meeting from the 4th to 6th of this month, the Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley should have chosen to make an official visit to Jamaica to discuss bilateral relations between the two countries.

Dear Editor, I bring to the general public’s notice the bad drainage system in the residential areas of Belladrum, Region Five.