Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 17, 2016

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson stormed to victory in the women’s Olympic 200 metres final with a time of 21.78 seconds on Wednesday to complete the Games sprint double.

Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 0515h.

Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 1300h.

Police are investigating a reported Robbery under Arms committed on Mark English 31 years, of 992 Providence, E.B.D,

This year’s top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) performer is Fatima Karim of St Rose’s High.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chinese Association of T&T committee member, David Lee Kim, yesterday called on the police to go after the gangs at Santa Rosa Heights, Arima, who have been terrorising the community and targeting Chinese businesses.

There were “systemic failures at all levels” and the persons in charge of the Drop-In Centre (DIC) are collectively responsible for the state of affairs that led to the deaths of two young brothers in a fire at the centre in July, a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) has found.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Jamaican Omar McLeod raced to victory in 13.05 seconds yesterday to become his country’s first ever Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion.

Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Six Dr Veerasammy Ramayya has resigned his position citing “unbearable” circumstances as the reason and has also signalled his intentions to resign from the Alliance For Change (AFC).

Guyana’s Troy Doris yesterday failed to medal in the men’s triple jump final at the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil placing seventh from the eight man field.

A garbage collection strike looms because of City Hall’s failure to pay its service providers over $250 million in debt to date.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC – Sprint sensation Usain Bolt launched the second phase of his historic bid in style here yesterday, when he cruised into the semi-finals of the 200 metres, with an easy win in the preliminaries at the Olympic Stadium.

Three years after she lost her right arm in a brutal attack that also claimed the lives of her two children, Nazalena Natasha Houston recently returned to Guyana from the US with her new prosthetic limb.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Leeward Islands opener Tyrone Williams roared to his first century in round five of the one-day phase of the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday.

A La Parfaite/Harmonie man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of having ganja for trafficking Shawn Koulen, 41, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore where he was read a charge which stated that on August 11 at the Georgetown Prison, he had 400 grammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.

(Reuters) – India will take over top spot in the world rankings if they beat West Indies in the fourth test in Trinidad that starts tomorrow.

Yesterday’s heavy rains did not prevent workers of the LBI and Enmore sugar estates from once again protesting in front of the Ministry of Presidency against the merging of the two entities as well as poor working conditions.

  RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won the women’s Olympic 1,500 metres yesterday after unleashing a devastating burst in the second half of the race that left Ethiopia’s world record holder Genzebe Dibaba trailing in her wake.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana,  CMC- Caricom has paid glowing tribute to Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson for winning the coveted 100 metre sprint titles at the Olympic Games currently underway in Brazil.

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Kaushal Silva roared back into form with a century in the final test against Australia yesterday, boosting the hosts’ hopes of a 3-0 sweep against the world number one team at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo.

Several sections of the city suffered from flooding as a result of persistent rainfall during Monday night and yesterday morning.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – China continued to show why they are the goliath of table tennis yesterday with a dominant win over Germany to take the women’s team gold, the champions dropping only one game in the final.

Two men yesterday disappeared leaving behind a bag containing 15 pounds of marijuana at Sandvoort, West Canje, Berbice.

  The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has begun the search for a General Secretary following the dismissal of Deidre Davis earlier this year.

The police are expected to seek legal advice today in relation to laying of charges against the three persons who allegedly murdered 13-year-old Daveanand Sanichar on Sunday night.

A young mason was yesterday placed on $75,000 bail after he denied a charge of robbery using personal violence.

Dear Editor, It is completely unacceptable that the river dragger in the Mazaruni, which sank over two months ago at a critical access point along the river, has still not been removed and that no authority has as yet taken the bull by the horns and mandated that it be removed.

 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC – Celebrated Jamaican sprinter Veronica Campbell-Brown has described her first-round exit from the Women’s 200 metres at the Rio Olympic Games on Monday  as “a terrible execution”.

A weeping and seemingly confused Brazilian woman appeared before a city magistrate yesterday charged with illegally having one bullet in her possession and was remanded to prison.

Dear Editor, After giving a talk at a school in the hinterland, a teacher shared with me that one of her students was being repeatedly raped by her grandfather, even though the grandmother and mother are aware of it.

Smythfield Rockers secured their first win of the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) sanctioned A.

Dear Editor, I wish to congratulate the Deputy Registrar of Deeds, Ms Zanna Frank, for challenging the unlawful interference by the Attorney-General in attempting to frustrate and prevent her from discharging the duties of her office.

Guyana’s national U17 football team could be returning to the international circuit during the month of October as they have been invited to the Future Cup U17 Championship to be staged in Portugal.

Rolston Bacchus, who is accused of recruiting drug mules, was apprehended by police while in the company of Mark Sauers, who was actually the one the police had been seeking at the time.

A family outing ended deadly on Monday afternoon when a teenager died after her stepfather lost control of the car he was driving and slammed into a utility pole at Dundee Public Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former vice-president of FIFA Jack Warner has labeled former FIFA president Joao Havelange, who died yesterday, as “the man who changed the face of football forever.”

Dear Editor, A letter by Mortimer George in Kaieteur News of August 2 refers.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian Federal Supreme Court justice has authorized the opening of an investigation into President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for allegedly working to obstruct the course of a sweeping corruption probe, GloboNews news channel said yesterday.

A father and his two sons are expected to be charged jointly with attempted murder and inflicting grievous bodily harm as police wrap up investigations into the brutal chopping of three men in Mi Mi Dam Angoy’s Avenue on Sunday afternoon.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The cost from damage to infrastructure and economic losses in Yemen’s civil war is more than $14 billion so far, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters that highlights the effort needed to rebuild the country, where more than half the population is suffering from malnutrition.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Trinidad and Tobago’s sports minister Darryl Smith has demanded an end to what he termed ‘nasty’ comments being made on social media, attacking the country’s athletes participating in the Rio Olympic Games.

Dear Editor, If we restrict the export of logs we are going to drastically affect loggers.

Former general manager of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and longtime advisor and contributor behind many of the agency’s social programmes and upgrades, Patrick Martinborough has died.

BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Brazil summoned Uruguay’s ambassador yesterday after the neighbouring country’s foreign minister accused Brazil of trying to “buy” its vote to block Venezuela from taking the rotating presidency of the Mercosur trade bloc.

Dear Editor, Marian Academy, the Roman Catholic run educational institution, participated for the first time in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) in the 2015-16 academic year. 

KINGSTOWN, St.Vincent, CMC – Results of games played in the fifth round of the one-day phase of the Regional Under-19 Championship here yesterday: Scores: At Arnos Vale: Guyana won by 38 runs.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An outbreak of yellow fever that has killed hundreds of people in central Africa could spread across the world, an international children’s charity warned today, even as a massive vaccination campaign was expected to get underway.

Tenders were opened yesterday for the extension of North Ruimveldt Secondary School as well as the supply and installation of a Photovoltaic system at the Kato Secondary School .The

Dear Editor, It was very painful to take note of the well prepared article in KN dated August 15, titled ‘Is Guyana’s manufacturing sector dying ?’

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Sharlene Radlein has been stripped of the Miss Universe Jamaica crown.

The decision by the government of the United Kingdom, resulting in a referendum that produced a 52%-48% decision in favour of departure from the European Union (EU) and the resignation of David Cameron as Prime Minister of the country, continues to provoke agitation in British politics.

In the issues of Stabroek News of Tuesday, January 16, 2007 and Wednesday, January 17, 2007 and in subsequent issues we published statements indicating that the plaintiff Dr Nanda Gopaul then occupying the position of Permanent Secretary, Office of the President, had directed the Government Information Agency (GINA) to withdraw government advertisements from the Stabroek News.

After outlining some of the historical hardships that confronted African Guyanese, the dire condition in which Africans still find themselves and some of the more recent international and nations responses to this condition, President David Granger, in his presentation to the Fourth Annual State of the African Guyanese Forum organized by the Cuffy 250 Committee, concluded that “This is the time to organize and mobilise so that at the end of the decade, the Government and the Guyanese people can report confidently they have achieved the objectives of the United Nations International Decade for people of African Descent.

Dear Editor, The following communication was received from the St Lucia National Reparations Committee: “…As you will have learned by now (hopefully), the Saint Lucia NRC will on August 17 host a special event to commemorate the 129th Anniversary of the Birth of Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

`So when you give him the captaincy, he has to worry about his cricket, plus the cricket of the other 11 players with him’ ST.JOHN’S,

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman was among a group of people kidnapped from a restaurant in the Pacific Mexican tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta this week, the state attorney general said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington is seeking closer coordination with several Latin American countries to tackle a jump in migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East who it believes are trying to reach the United States from the south on an arduous route by plane, boat and through jungle on foot.