Articles published on Monday, February 13, 2017
(Reuters) – A Virginia federal judge today issued a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority nations, the latest legal setback for the administration.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. blacklisted Venezuela’s Vice President Tareck El Aissami and an associate for drug trafficking, the first crackdown by the Trump administration against top officials in President Nicolas Maduro’s government for money laundering and the drug trade.
Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman says he would petition the Ministry of Finance to set aside a greater portion of the gold royalties for land reclamation projects in mining areas, GINA reported today.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Adele swept the Grammy Awards on Sunday, taking home statuettes for the top prizes – album, record and song of the year – in a shock, history-making victory over Beyonce on a night marked by political statements and emotional tributes.
OROVILLE, Calif., (Reuters) – Evacuation orders for nearly 200,000 people living below the tallest dam in the United States remained in place early on Monday after residents were abruptly told to flee when a spillway appeared in danger of collapse.
A former Jamaica Contractor General is tipped to be the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC), according to well-placed sources.
An early morning blaze yesterday claimed the lives of three persons at Beterverwagting (BV) and police are working on the theory that a man hacked his wife to death before setting the place afire.
As public outcry grows over the implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) on private education services, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan maintains that as a fiscal measure VAT should not be looked at as a solution to social ills.
The police in `B’ Division yesterday took into custody the businessman who was said to have been involved with Leilawatie Mohamed, also known as ‘Aunty Leila,’ the mother of four who was shot dead in her Tain Settlement, Corentyne home last week.
Just eight days after moving into their new home, a woman and her husband were robbed of cash and jewellery after four armed bandits invaded their abode on Saturday night and beat them.
Defending champions Showstoppers, ESPN and Agricola maintained their unbeaten records following contrasting group wins when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ West Demerara/East Bank Demerara zone continued on Saturday.
Ifa Kamau Cush, one of the original principals behind the controversial parking meters deal had been jailed for four months in New York in 2002 and placed on five years’ probation for grand larceny in the third degree.
Den Amstel and Mahaica stormed their way into the quarters of the Petra Organization/Limacol football championships eliminating Ann’s Grove and Camptown respectively Saturday at the Victoria Ground.
The member of the Guyana Fire Service who allegedly struck down and killed boat builder, Clement Skeete almost four months ago was last week released on $250,000 bail after he denied the charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Dear Editor, From 2000-2005, I attended the Leonora Primary School on the West Coast of Demerara.
President David Granger yesterday announced that he will re-establish the Guyana Youth Corps on January 1, 2018, to empower the nation’s youth.
Says Royston Alkins Now that the Guyana Jaguars are assured a place on the next flight home, returning home disappointingly empty handed after another sad limited-overs showing at the Regional 50 overs level, tough decisions will have to be made if the problems in the shorter format of the game are to be remedied.
The police in `B’ Division are working on wrapping up the investigation into the murder of Danian Jagdeo, 36, a phone card distributor, who was shot and killed during a robbery in Adventure, Corentyne on Wednesday.
Dear Editor, We are two of thousands of small miners in the mining industry and as such are qualified to comment on matters concerning the industry.
Delroy Leitch won the male open category and Swarswattie Matadeen the female category at the seventh annual Desmond Dorsett Memorial road race held recently at the Number 53 Sports Complex in Berbice.
The Black Bush/Mibicuri and the Canje Secondary Schools on Saturday received a total of 40 bicycles under President David Granger’s ‘Boats, Buses, Bicycles plus Breakfast and Books’ or ‘Five Bs’ programme.
Two-time Olympian Winston George and Natrena Hooper were named the Senior Male and Female Athletes-of-the-Year for 2016.
Leon Duncan known as ‘Whistle’ is currently being questioned by police in relation to two murders.
Dear Editor, I fully support former Speaker Ralph Ramkarran’s suggestion that “There should be a campaign of civil resistance if the meter zone is extended” (SN, Feb 5).
If President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), K Juman-Yassin has his wish the GOA and the Government of Guyana will work in unison to give selected certified coaches monthly stipends.
Dear Editor, The Caribbean Voice notes that a recent editorial on mental health in a local newspaper was significant for what it omitted as much as what was included.
Due to concerns over the state of the Diamond burial ground, Chairman of the Diamond/Grove Neighbourhood Demo-cratic Council (NDC) Bharat Narine says a work plan would have to be developed to address the issues.
Dear Editor, Prime Minister of India Mr Narendra Modi speaking in the Lok Sabha during the just concluded 2017 Union budget debate was quoted as saying: “corruption begins with cash, and later with gold then property.”
The National Sports Commission (NSC) has joined with the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) to stage a community `Day of Sports’ in Berbice.
Large parts of the country were plunged into several hours of blackout last night after the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) went down.
Jamal John emerged winner of yesterday’s 75-mile road race which was staged from Homestretch Avenue to Loo Creek on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway and back.
The young members of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) were on Wednesday urged by longstanding member Komal Samaroo to prepare for the technological changes that the future holds.
Dear Editor, On September 6 last year I wrote a piece in the Stabroek News about the importance of the appointment of judges to the Appellate Circuit Courts in the United States and I was criticized by a few who asked what was the relevance to Guyanese.
Dear Editor, It has always baffled me why in the twenty-first century influential cricket people, especially in the West Indies, the region that is the chief victim of old-fashioned thinking about the game, could not recognize how invidious distinctions between the long and shorter versions have been inhibiting progress internationally in this sport they claim to love.
Morgan Learning Center (MLC) hammered Sir Small Lessons 4-0 when the 5th annual Milo U18 Secondary Schools Football championships continued yesterday.
By Royston Alkins Following the conclusion of its Annual General Meeting and election of office bearers, the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) is set to launch the GCA 2017 cricket season next month.
Dear Editor, At the last AFC National Conference on January 28 in Region 3, we saw changes in the entire leadership of the party.
A prisoner at the Camp Street jail escaped from the facility yesterday morning but was held shortly after following a chase by a policeman.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it had successfully test-fired a new type of medium- to long-range ballistic missile the previous day, claiming further advancement in a weapons programme it is pursuing in violation of United Nations resolutions.
(Trinidad Express) RubyAdams-Johnson, the grandmother of Tobago’s fourth murder victim, 15-year-old Abiela Adams, on Saturday called for hangings to resume in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dear Editor, More and more the reports are surfacing, and more and more those same verbal reports are corroborated by an accumulating mound of damning records.
A man died after he was knocked down on the Parfait Harmonie Access Road, West Bank Demerara on Saturday night.
During the course of last week, we learnt that the Georgetown City Council was eleven years in arrears in having their accounts audited and reported on.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand authorities were cutting holes in 300 whale carcasses yesterday, popping the dead animals “like balloons”, to avoid them exploding as they decompose on Golden Bay after more than 600 whales became stranded.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride warmed up for next week’s Regional Super50 semi-finals in Antigua by thumping Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners by 143 runs in their final Group B game here Saturday.
By The Caribbean Voice The Caribbean Voice is a New York-based NGO that has been involved in social activism since its launch in 1998.
Colin Kay: `They should tax private education simply because the schools are charging a fee so it should be taxable, whereas you go to the public schools, you pay no charges so there is no fee.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski asked U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call yesterday to consider deporting the Andean country’s fugitive ex-president, Alejandro Toledo, Kuczynski said in a statement.
Dear Editor, I am pretty sure that the MAPM is both flabbergasted and amused by Mayor Chase-Green’s contrite invitation to a ‘consultative’ meeting today at 10am.
REACTING to last week’s ‘Stabroek News’ exclusive interview with Gregory Smith, the WPA, in a statement declared he would be finally exposed by his claim that the party got him out of Guyana.
The Guyana Museum in collaboration with the Ministry of Education’s Department of Youth, Sport and Culture on Friday held an exhibition on Masquerades.
On February 8th, the Office of the Prime Minister announced the arrival of a team of constitutional experts from the United Nations System for what was described as a constitutional reform needs assessment mission.
A 36-year-old man was remanded to prison on Thursday after he was charged with being in possession of half a pound of cannabis.
VITORIA, Brazil, (Reuters) – More than 1,200 police broke an eight-day strike yesterday in a coastal Brazilian state that had seen a dramatic increase in homicides during the stoppage, but where the violence is now receding.
(Reuters) – India’s spinners sent back the top three Bangladesh batsmen in the second innings of the one-off test at Hyderabad yesterday to keep the hosts on course for victory.
