Daily Archive: Saturday, August 6, 2016

About 2000h. last night a mother reported to the police at Itaballi Check Point, that her daughter was being assaulted by her reputed husband, the police said today.

(CPL T20)The fastest ever Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) century by Andre Russell helped the Jamaica Tallawahs defeat the Trinbago Knight Riders in Warner Park to secure a place in Sunday’s final.

A Ministry of Finance (MoF) report has scathingly criticised the controversial parking meters deal for the city and says since government procurement rules may have been transgressed this would justify a revoking of the contract and a fresh process.

Fees for city parking will begin at $50 for 15 minutes and there will be special rates for public transportation, according to Director of Smart City Solutions (SCS) Ifa Cush, who is rejecting findings by government reviews that the parking meter contract with City Hall heavily favours his firm.

Almost a whopping half a billion dollars was spent by government on the D’Urban Park Development Project, which was constructed for the Jubilee celebrations.

Former president Donald Ramotar yesterday denied claims made by the supervising consultant of the Kato Secondary School, Design Construction Services Limited (DCSL), that he and his government pressured them to have the project completed before the 2015 General Elections.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world yesterday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pulsating beat of samba, bossa nova and funk.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has assigned State Prosecutor Teshana Lake to lead the prosecution in the trial of former PPP/C minister Dr Jennifer Westford and her former aide Margaret Cummings for the alleged theft of over $600 million from the government.

As the suspension of scrap metal exports continues, dozens of dealers yesterday staged a picket outside of the Ministry of Business for the reopening of the trade, while claiming that an estimated 1,500 workers were affected.

Participants at the judicial colloquium on the abolition of the death penalty, which was held here last month, recommended that the government formalise the de facto moratorium of the death penalty.

Government on Thursday used its parliamentary majority to vote down an opposition motion calling for greater measures to address suicide, including decriminalisation, with its speakers arguing that the manner in which it was framed both politicised and trivialised the problem.

Four men are now in custody after a gang broke into a Seawell, East Coast Berbice home yesterday morning and proceeded to brutalise and rob a family, which has been left traumatised.

The fisherman of Parika, East Bank Essequibo, who chopped his former partner and her mother at Greenwich Park on Wednesday night and then ingested poison, succumbed yesterday morning.

All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite is expected to replace Darren Sammy as the West Indies T20 skipper ahead of the upcoming matches against India in Florida on August 27 and 28.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC — Darren Sammy has been sacked as West Indies Twenty20 captain, four months after leading the region to unprecedented second T20 World Cup triumph.

More than two weeks after the body of James Stuart was found at La Grange, West Bank Demerara with a wound to the head, a sixteen-year-old boy was on Wednesday charged with his murder.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC — Second Test hero Roston Chase says he is already looking forward to starting afresh in the critical third Test in St Lucia, as West Indies chase a win to level the four-match series.

(Reuters) – Real Madrid duo Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale are in the running with Atletico Madrid striker Antoine Griezmann for the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award, while Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez have missed out on nomination.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC — Leaders Leeward Islands were facing a daunting task in order to win their final round three-day game of the Regional Under-19 Championship, after another impressive batting showing by Jamaica on the second day here yesterday.

A man was yesterday set $1 million bail after he denied a charge that he stole over $9.7 million in raw gold and diesel.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs yesterday launched its list of activities for this year’s Indigenous Heritage month celebrations, under the theme ‘Our Culture, Earth’s Future – Save the Environment; Live the Indigenous Way.’

Dear Editor, Some of our farmers and vendors have joined the world of artificial ripening of fruits and vegetables with the use of chemical agents.

With the third round of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Caribbean Cup Qualifiers slated to commence in October, the Golden Jaguars will possibly be returning to the international circuit with a friendly encounter during the month of September.

(Reuters) – Brazil’s athletes were not subject to dope tests for almost a month before the Rio Olympics, the country’s sports ministry has said while refuting allegations it was a political decision to ensure the Games were not plunged further into crisis.

Dear Editor, In an SN article of August 4, it was reported that the architectural firm Rodrigues Architects Limited carried out an audit on the recently completed Kato Secondary School which was built at a cost of over $728 million, and that they uncovered over $144 million of defective work (nearly 20% of the construction contract).

Universal Games Guyana, the newest addition to the attractions at the Giftland Mall, opened to the public on Wednesday, with the offer of one-of-a-kind virtual reality machines at affordable rates.

Fun Park Rentals will be hosting the first local ‘Playday’ event later this month to celebrate children’s play.

Dear Editor, The move by the Ministry of Business and Tourism to create a strategic plan is quite heartening, and is an initiative that should be applauded and copied by other sectors/ministries of government.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A Moroccan Olympic boxer was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted two women in the Olympic Village, Rio de Janeiro police said yesterday.

Deborah Kehinde or ‘Dara’ as she is nicknamed is a designer who concentrates strictly on African fashion.

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump took steps to steer his White House campaign back into favour with his party establishment yesterday by endorsing U.S.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) wishes to respond to the article published in the Guyana Chronicle dated August 4, 2016 titled, ‘LBI workers picket GuySuCo over transfer to Enmore.’

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Jamaican discus thrower Jason Morgan has lost his appeal over being excluded from their Olympics team despite having reached the qualifying standard, the top sport court ruled yesterday.

Murder accused Orpheus Johnson was yesterday committed to stand trial for the killing of Gladstone George, who was shot to death execution-style aboard a minibus in full view of several passengers at Agricola, East Bank Demerara last year.

Dear Editor, As a mining advocate and President of the National Mine Workers’ Union of Guyana, I unwaveringly support the call for investigations and prosecution across the mining districts advocated by Maj-Gen (rtd) Joe Singh who headed the CoI into the pit cave-in that led to the death of eighteen-year-old Reynold Williams.

Hi Everyone, What’s Cooking is a series in which I address questions you may have about food and cooking but are too shy to ask.

(Reuters) – England fought back strongly to leave the third test against Pakistan hanging in the balance after an enthralling third day in Birmingham yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The committee set up to investigate lack of transparency in Panama’s financial system itself lacks transparency, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told Reuters yesterday after resigning from the “Panama Papers” commission.

A Soesdyke man was yesterday remanded to prison on a murder charge.

The businesses on the ground floor of the four-storey building at Avenue of the Republic and America Street, which was ravaged by fire on Thursday, have resumed operations, while the investigation of what caused the blaze continues.

Baffling does not even begin to describe First Lady Sandra Granger’s deafening silence on the issue of the dress code.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino, elected in February to lead the global soccer body into calmer waters after a series of corruption scandals, was himself cleared of possible ethics violations yesterday.

HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s army commander said yesterday that his soldiers will deal with threats from activists using social media to mobilise anti-government protests, the first time the military has commented on the demonstrations.

(Trinidad Guardian) Determined not to let 14 years of marriage go down the drain, Ardia Yearwood-Marchan and Peter Marchan were trying to make life work.

Dear Editor, Speaking on last week’s edition of the TV programme ‘Public Interest’, President David Granger, made some startling disclosures.

By Derry Etkins Last Saturday, July 31, I had a five-minute glimpse into a possible future for Guyana, through the mind of a radio personality.

(Trinidad Express) Forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov resumed performing autopsies on Thursday after he was given the assurance some of his demands will be met.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling party was in a close race early yesterday in two major cities after losing one other key municipality in its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid.

Dear Editor, The watching of accountability by Mr Anand Goolsarran is testimony to the dangers of having persons who are employed by government or have a private practice granted access to the national newspapers and allowed to publish columns on a regular basis.

(Reuters) – Rangana Herath claimed his maiden test hat-trick as 21 wickets tumbled on a frantic second day with hosts Sri Lanka closing in on a series-clinching victory against Australia in the second test in Galle yesterday.

As investigators continue to probe the murder of taxi driver Orin David, the High Court yesterday granted the police more time to detain the suspect who was arrested hours after the attack.

ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – Paraguay yesterday recalled its ambassador to Caracas after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made disparaging remarks about Paraguay amidst a leadership dispute in South America’s Mercosur trade bloc.

President David Granger is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Cuffy250 Committee’s 4th annual “State of the African Guyanese Forum” tomorrow at the Critchlow Labour College, in Georgetown.

This bevy of attractive teenagers being prepared for the Wednesday, August 17 Miss Summer Blaze Pageant at the Theatre Guild, includes secondary school students and post-CXC university aspirants.

While growing up, Emancipation Day was one of highlights of my life.

MILAN, (Reuters) – Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi agreed yesterday to sell soccer team AC Milan to a consortium of Chinese investors, ending his three decades of ownership of the seven-times European champions.

Politikles

(Trinidad Express) A gunman wearing a motorcycle helmet to mask his identity entered Dougie’s Club on the Western Main Road, St James, early Thursday morning and shot bar owner Earl Douglas seven times about the body.

“Character is not formed by the mind,” wrote Baron Pierre de Coubertin, “it is formed above all by the body.

Dear Editor, In the 1980s and I was in my 40s – a patient of Doctor Niamatali.

Gotta catch em all: The Promenade Gardens is just one of the designated Pokémon Gyms, where local Pokémon GO players have flocked to catch Pokémon.

Minister of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally (left), this morning, commended the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Mahaica-Berbice (Region Five) for their positive response to President David Granger’s call for reconciliation and advised them that she now intends to work even closer with them to support the strengthening of relationships among members.