Articles published on Friday, July 29, 2016
(Reuters) – A Minnesota judge has excluded nearly 30 would-be heirs from the estate of the late pop star Prince, bolstering the inheritance claims of the performer’s sister and surviving half-siblings, probate court records released on Friday showed.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A galaxy of former West Indies stars converged on Kensington Oval for a celebrity game here Thursday night, to mark the 80th birthday of cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers.
Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan last evening led a team on a Trafficking in Persons awareness walk in the Bourda Market.
Newly appointed Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Godfrey Statia (right) began his first few days on the job getting acquainted with staff at the Authority’s Camp Street Headquarters and at the different locations.
An excavator being operated by the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA/ADA) came into contact with trees within close proximity of GPL’s transmission and distribution system at Ithaca causing some trees to fall onto the Network.
Twenty communities in five regions of the country and including large parts of the capital city have been identified for anti-crime measures under an IDB-funded programme.
Obina Hendricks ‘aka Hiney’ is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to ‘Trafficking in Narcotics’ on July 11, 2016, at the Eugene Correia International Airport, Ogle, the police say.
(Trinidad Guardian) President of the Petroleum Dealers’ Association of T&T, Robindranath Naraynsingh, yesterday said the country’s 170 gas stations were on the verge of collapse due to poor profitability margins from the sale of fuel.
Police are preparing to charge a farmer, his teenaged son and an employee with last week’s brutal Black Bush triple murder.
Over 100 passport applications are being received from New York alone on a weekly basis and this has placed pressure on the Central Immigration and Passport Office, Minister of Citizenship Winston Felix says.
President David Granger “sees nothing wrong” with the appointment of retired or serving military officers to civilian posts and maintains that the appointments are being made based on competence.
A co-worker of murdered Gafoor’s manager Terry Lackhan was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with killing him.
Bibi Safoora Salim, the woman who allegedly made death threats to President David Granger on Facebook, was yesterday freed of the charges.
(CPL T20) The Guyana Amazon Warriors have secured a spot in the knockout stages of the Hero Caribbean Premier League with a stunning victory over the Barbados Tridents in Lauderhill, Florida.
A shortage of nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has been confirmed by Public Health Minister, Dr.
An autopsy has found that a fluid build-up in the organs was the cause of death of Carol Chuniram, who died earlier this month at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after an unsuccessful surgery to remove a foetus that had died in her womb.
With only days remaining before their Digicel Schools Football Final rematch, members of the management staff of defending champion Wismar/Christianburg and Chase Academy have signalled their confidence ahead of the encounter.
General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has criticized the government for the “demonstrable lack of willingness on its part to bring the partially state-owned… Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) under control” in response to its “continued reign of terror” and its refusal to engage “the recognized union, the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU).”
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Jeavor Royal finished with a ten-wicket match haul as Jamaica defeated Guyana by 39 runs inside two days, in their opening round three-day game of the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday.
An accident on the Houston Public Road last evening has left one woman dead.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Opener Shian Brathwaite stroked a half-century but it was not enough to prevent Trinidad and Tobago from taking the upper hand against Barbados on the second day of their opening round game in the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday.
Even as the Ministry of Business says it is continuing to create a reformed set of operational regulations for the scrap metal industry, the umbrella association for operators in the sector feels that the treatment that has been meted out to the industry gives rise to the view that it has now come to be regarded as a pariah.
Safraz Jallalodeen, who was busted in May at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with over 10 pounds of cocaine hidden in powdered milk, yesterday testified that he saw half a dozen other people, who were prepared by the men who recruited him, make it through customs during an earlier trip.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – An Emmanuel Stewart half-century handed Windward Islands the advantage heading into today’s final day of their opening three-day game of the Regional Under-19 Championship against Leeward Islands here.
There is absolutely no way that the authorities could have continued to countenance the relentless pillaging of the installations of the utility companies by thieves targeting metal infrastructure for vandalizing in order to make a living out of selling the metal.
The probe into the theft of a quantity of raw gold from several miners by five ranks attached to the Brickdam Police Station is ongoing, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhaum.
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PPP executive and opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira on Wednesday presented what she said was evidence to support the contention of Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that Indo-Guyanese are being discriminated against by the APNU+AFC government and that they are poorly represented on state boards and in other areas.
In excess of $30M will be up for grabs when the Port Mourant Turf Club in Collaboration with Jumbo Jet Auto Sales presents the 10th Guyana Cup on August 14.
Twelve private training institutions have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the Small Business Bureau (SBB) to train entrepreneurs.
By Karen Abrams, MBA Technology Consultant Two days ago a good friend of mine raised a very important question when she interviewed our STEM Robotics team for her television show in Guyana.
All systems are now in place for the staging of the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis National Novices Championship starting tonight at the National Gymnasium.
Dear Editor, After 50 years of independence ‘race’ seems as much a divisive construct as it ever was.
Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing my last letter on the subject of the Venezuelan refugees.
According to Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, the government is still in the process of sourcing financing for the establishment of the Youth Investment Fund.
Cycling club, Team Evolution will once again partner with Digicel for one year to promote the message of Breast Cancer Awareness in Guyana.
Having served in various capacities, in some instances for more than 15 years, more than 40 Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuco) workers attached to the Demerara Sugar Terminal find themselves stuck in low-paying jobs and saddled with what their Shop Stewards say is grossly sub-standard trade union representation that is making no effort to engage the company in the matter of improving their wages and conditions of work.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Opener Sachin Singh struck the only half-century of the opening round as he helped Guyana make a winning start to the Regional Under-15 Championship with a seven-wicket victory over Windward Islands here Wednesday.
Gold Prices for the three-day period ending Thursday July 28, 2016Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.
The preliminary report for the Commission of Inquiry into the fatal fire at the Hadfield Street Drop-in Centre pointed to some systemic problems and bad fire prevention arrangements, according to State Minister Joseph Harmon.
Dear Editor, Oil has been found in Guyana and optimistically production will begin in 2020.
A prison officer is now behind bars after he was charged yesterday over an illegal gun that was found by police hidden in a car that he was driving.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A year of unrelenting misery, of corruption, cover-ups, bans, appeals and doping, doping, doping, has ripped the heart and soul out of athletics, the sport that likes to think of itself as the heart and soul of the Olympics.
Dear Editor, It’s with interest I read in the news these days about the leaders in Guyana playing the environmental card to the world.
Tracy Fordyce, the driver who hit visiting St Lucian cub scouts and a scout leader on Tuesday along Woolford Avenue, was yesterday sentenced to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to a dangerous driving charge.
Dolly and Sarah Davson are members of a third-generation Guyanese family, which over the years has been making a living making and marketing an assortment of containers out of aluminium and galvanized metal.
PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said yesterday Americans faced challenges at home and abroad that demand steady leadership and a collective spirit, and attacked Republican Donald Trump for sowing fear and divisiveness.
Bilateral exchange between two of the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) more influential states, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica to settle long-outstanding and increasing acrimonious trade and immigration issues would appear to be accelerating in the wake of the recently concluded regional Heads of Government summit in Georgetown.
Dear Editor, First I wish to applaud Mr Annan Boodram for his excellent and timely letter on alcohol and some of its major effects on this society, and the issue of alcohol in our culture.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Chinese company, Jiuguan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO) are to invest US$2 billion to establish an industrial zone in Nain, St Elizabeth over a four-year period creating over 3,000 new jobs.
The Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) has added Green Engineering, one of nine new generation subjects, to its portfolio.
(Reuters) – Sri Lankan Kusal Mendis struck a majestic maiden test century on day three of the first test against Australia to leave the bowler-dominated contest evenly poised at Pallekele yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-run National Assembly defied President Nicolas Maduro’s government and ratcheted up a conflict of powers yesterday by reinstating three lawmakers banned over fraud accusations in the December parliamentary vote.
A soldier based at Camp Ayanganna was on Wednesday granted bail in the sum of $10,000, on a charge of having a stolen cell phone in his possession.
Dear Editor, The Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) is calling on the Guyana Medical Council (GMC) to conduct an urgent investigation to determine the reason or reasons why patient Thelma Rebeiro of Shulinab Village, south central Rupununi, Region 9 to date has not regained consciousness after four months following two surgeries for gallstones.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes after he told a teenage relative he was going to get a meal and go to church, a man instead showed up at Carlene Grant’s workplace and stabbed her several times before taking a sledgehammer and bashing in the side of her head.
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A convicted felon was returned to jail yesterday after he admitted to being found with a quantity of marijuana.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Dominica government defended its decision to introduce a Citizenship by Investment Programme (CIP), saying that it had contributed significantly to the socio-economic development of the island.
BULAWAYO, (Reuters) – Fiery seamer Neil Wagner claimed career-best test figures of six for 41 as New Zealand took complete control of the opening day of the first test against Zimbabwe at the Queen’s Sports Club yesterday.
The 14th Caribbean Cuboree was officially launched on Tuesday and around one thousand youths from 14 countries, including Guyana are participating in a series of activities which end here today.
TORONTO/MONTREAL, (Reuters) – A six-year prison sentence for a policeman in the shooting death of a teenager three years ago was a rare conviction in Canada, where activists say officers too often get off easy in brutality cases.
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Dear Editor, When I repeat my national pledge, which I do often to myself, I am reminded that it begins thus: ‘I pledge myself to honour always the flag of Guyana and to be loyal to my country’.
Last month when he announced government’s plan to expand our emergency medical services Minister Joe Harmon stopped short of acknowledging that the emergency response here is downright poor, and that it fails to provide timely and life-saving assistance to citizens.
Dear Editor, As Americans head to the polls in November this year their choice is this simple: either they elect Bill Clinton for a third term or a stand-up comedian for his first.
(Trinidad Express) A helicopter pilot on Wednesday appeared before Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court charged with possession of cocaine valued at TT$1.3 million.
-An Emancipation/Arrival nugget Taking a break from our local stresses of life here, I venture to comment on the burgeoning globalised ballistic stress that is terrorism.
(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal’s injury situation is “delicate” ahead of the Rio Olympics, according to Spanish team mate David Ferrer.
Big is beautiful’ is a concept that has found its way into the mainstream of international fashion, opening up new and lucrative vistas in the multi-million-dollar clothing industry and simultaneously imbuing in ‘ample’ women a renewed sense of confidence that the world out there does not belong only to women for whom dress is driven by diet.
ANKARA/ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wants the armed forces and national intelligence agency brought under the control of the presidency, a parliamentary official said yesterday, part of a major overhaul of the military after a failed coup.
On 23 July 2016, representatives from the US Embassy travelled with 32 students and staff from universities around the United States to the Amerindian village of St.
The Rotary Club of Stabroek, Georgetown recently inaugurated its new President and Board of Directors for 2016-2017, at a ceremony held at the Pegasus Hotel.
