Daily Archive: Tuesday, November 8, 2016

The prime suspect who last Sunday morning broke into the Variety Store of Bartica’s Deputy Mayor, Kamal Persaud, and carted off jewellery, electronic appliances and gadgets, including cellular phones and also an assortment of other items valued in excess of $3.2 million dollars, was this morning arrested and will face the court soon, the police say.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has defended its decision to impose a 20 percent levy on the contract fees of its T20 stars playing in overseas domestic tournaments, saying revenue raised will be used to aid the development of players in the territories.

(Trinidad Guardian) While their neighbours celebrated two weddings in their community, a Felicity couple suffered a tragic end after being gunned down upon returning home from the movies on Sunday night.

– accumulated deficit at $41B GuySuCo’s dire financial situation was expressed in its 2015 annual report recently tabled in Parliament which cited an accumulated deficit of $41 billion at the end of the year and a loss of $1.9 billion which included the state subvention of $12 billion.

In its quest to secure “urgently needed” funds, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown is offering a limited amnesty on the interest accrued on unpaid property rates in Georgetown.

Three men in their 20s, accused of raping a woman in October, were yesterday remanded to prison after they could not afford the $250,000 bail on which they each were placed.

A woman and her children were left traumatised yesterday after being attacked in their car at knife-point by three bandits in front of a Sheriff Street fast food outlet.

Yokohama Trading was early yesterday morning robbed of over $12 million in local and foreign currency after two men entered and held the employees at gunpoint.

The Gaming Authority yesterday said that it denied the applications of SleepIn International Hotel and Casino Inc for casino licences because it failed to provide proof of “its financial soundness and capability,” which was critical for approval.

A fraud charge was yesterday read against former General Manager of the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) Nizam Hassan and four others, including a former Agriculture Ministry project engineer, for allegedly approving payments for substandard work on the rehabilitation of the company’s Robb Street headquarters.

The Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara has rejected allegations that bullying at the school resulted in a child falling ill twice, and her parents have since removed their two children after they said their complaints were not satisfactorily addressed.

Pepsi Hikers and Pizza Hut Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) retained the Men’s First and Women’s Divisional Titles, respectively, when the curtains came down on the GTT National Indoor Hockey Championships on Sunday.Pepsi

By Zoisa Fraser in New York (Stabroek News is one of two Caribbean media houses chosen to participate in the US Election Tour organised by the US Department of State’s Foreign Press Centre.)

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that the senior police official who allegedly struck down and killed Vreed-en-Hoop resident Anmanie Deonarine little more than one month ago be charged with causing death by dangerous driving.

A pulsating Cross Fit style competition brought the curtain down on the successful two-day GTM Health and Fitness Games which concluded Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Vice-Chairperson Sarah Browne says there is a “severe” drug shortage across Region One.

Floodlights XI cruised to an easy eight wicket win over Fisherman’s XI while Speedboat upset Regal in last evening’s finals of the Guyana Softball Cup 6 played at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground.

The police were up to last evening working on enhancing footage in relation to the shooting of money changer Vishwahnauth Nouwbat inside of Popeye’s Restaurant, America and Water streets on Sunday.

The national men’s sevens rugby team dubbed the ’Green Machine’ winged out for Trinidad and Tobago yesterday.

As November 19 draws near for the highly anticipated ‘Stage of Champions’ event, the international fixture continues to draw the attention of corporate Guyana.

Although the present model of operation of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has failed, with major changes there is still a chance to make some parts of the industry profitable, according to President David Granger.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised that an inquest be conducted into the Aruka River, North West District, boat collision which claimed the lives of two children in August.

PERTH, (Reuters) – South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis described Kagiso Rabada’s performance as “phenomenal” after the young paceman helped turn a parlous situation on day two of the first test against Australia into a thumping 177-run victory on Monday.

A convicted felon, who is currently serving six months in jail for dangerous driving, was yesterday charged with injuring another man.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Alastair Cook’s England seem to have neither the form nor the resources to repeat their 2012 heroics against an Indian team determined to cement their top test rankings in a five-match series starting at Rajkot on Wednesday.

Dear Editor, Stabroek News on November 6, 2016 (‘$2 million raised by UG on $4 M NY trip’) carried a report on information provided by the University of Guyana Administration following a request from your newspaper.

Former Stabroek Square fruit vendors, who have been relocated from the Parliament View Mall to the parapet of the former Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB) building at Lombard and Hadfield streets, are reporting a rise in sales.

Dear Editor, Not only because it’s Guyana’s Golden Jubilee year, but also with 2015-2024 marking the UN International Decade for People of African Descent, the University of Westminster Students’ Union (UWSU) on 22nd October hosted London’s only Golden Jubilee conference to address Guyana’s post-colonial legacy.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe lost two early wickets but recovered to finish 126 for two at the close on the second day of the second test on Monday in reply to Sri Lanka’s first-innings total of 504.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,, CMC – Exciting West Indies Twenty20 batsman Nicholas Pooran has been slapped with a suspension by the West Indies Cricket Board, after snubbing his Leeward Islands Hurricanes contract for the upcoming Professional Cricket League.

Dear Editor, A brief space please, as well as some assistance in this attempt to serve an injunction on History, re the USA 2016 elections campaign, which just happens to be the most entertaining spectacle ever enacted on an international stage.

MANAGUA (Reuters) – After clinching a third straight term by a landslide, Nicaragua’s president faces headwinds from an economic crisis in financial ally Venezuela and increasingly rocky relations with top trading partner the United States.

After enduring several hours of scheduled blackout on Sunday, residents of Georgetown can now expect a problem-free holiday season, according to the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL) as it was able to complete the maintenance.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich/SCRANTON, Pa (Reuters) – The US presidential campaign neared its end yesterday in the same angry tone it began, with Republican Donald Trump calling Democrat Hillary Clinton a “phony” and Clinton accusing him of splitting the country, as a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll showed Clinton with a strong chance of winning.

Fidel Collins, the bus driver accused of assaulting a differently-abled man during an incident of road rage two weeks ago, is expected to be charged next month after a schedule mix-up.

Dear Editor, Patriotic Guyanese roots people are forewarned: the Americans are coming. 

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago will begin their preparation for Friday’s opening game of the CONCACAF World Cup final round of qualifiers, with a double session here Monday.

Jennifer Chapman, the Deputy Accountant General at the Ministry of Finance, yesterday testified that she handed over 23 cheques, dated from August, 2011 to March, 2015, to the police for the investigation of the alleged theft of over $600 million by former public service minister Jennifer Westford and aide Margaret Cummings.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Andy Murray’s route to securing the year-end world number ranking looks fraught with danger after the top seed was grouped with Stan Wawrinka, Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic for next week’s ATP World Tour Finals in London.

Dear Editor, “Emphasised that Government sees it as a citizen’s duty to be responsible, noting that having responsible citizenry is not something that is abstract or too philosophical to become reality.”

(Reuters) – Blunt-spoken Janet Reno, who served eight years as the first woman US attorney general and authorized the deadly 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian cult compound in Texas just weeks into the job, died yesterday at age 78.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Cricket Board recently successfully ran off their three-day franchise cricket league for teams in Guyana, with the Lower Corentyne team winning the competition.

A teen, who initially admitted to stealing a gold chain, was yesterday remanded to prison after he claimed that he was only accused of the crime after he got into a fight with the accuser.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A US prosecutor yesterday told jurors that two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady sought to use a presidential airport hangar to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal, charges that defence lawyers said would not stand up at trial.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo’s new five-year contract with Real Madrid which ties him to the Spanish club until the age of 36 will not be his last, he said on Monday.

Cabinet last week approved the establishment of a steering committee to oversee the implementation of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) project to improve maternal and child health.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA said yestersay there had been an oil spill in central Anzoategui state and it was supplying drinking water to affected communities during an operation over a radius of 50 kilometres (31 miles).

Dear Editor, I believe that cricket boards should provide contracts for players of all varieties of the game.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman shoved an unsuspecting traveler off a New York City subway platform into the path of an approaching train yesterday afternoon, killing the victim instantly as bystanders watched in horror, police said.

If Hillary Clinton wins the November 8 elections, it will be because most Americans decided that it’s better to have a president who mishandles her emails than one whose mercurial personality would make it dangerous to put him in charge of the nuclear button.

In the fullness of time the 2016-20 Strategic Plan unveiled by the Ministry of Business recently will, we hope, become the subject of discourse amongst various interest groups, not least business support organizations  including the Private Sector Commission and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Trail Blazers 100, Grizzlies 94 (The Sports Xchange) Portland shooting guard CJ McCollum tied his career high with 37 points to lead the Trail Blazers to a 100-94 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday.