Daily Archive: Wednesday, April 19, 2017

CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Two Venezuelan students died today after being shot during protests against unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro, increasing turmoil in the volatile nation amid a devastating economic crisis.

The police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 1 am today on the McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara, which resulted in the death of Troy Cordwell, 40, of Lot 1 D’Urban Street and Louisa Row, Georgetown.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition says it will stage the “mother of all marches” today, accusing President Nicolas Maduro of resorting to dictatorial measures to quash popular outrage over a deepening economic crisis.

The government has crafted a framework document for its Guyana Green State Development Strategy (GSDS), which will utilise funding from the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF).

Justice Navindra Singh yesterday sentenced 19-year-old Deosarran Bisnauth to spend the rest of his natural life in prison for the fatal beating of Robert Mangal.

Officers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) have been ordered by the Ministry of Natural Resources  to the Puruni and Mazaruni areas in Region Seven to investigate reports of severe mining pollution of rivers there.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, (EBD) joiner, who succumbed to injuries sustained from an attack on Sunday afternoon.

A 16-year-old farmer of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, succumbed to the injuries he sustained, after the motorcycle on which he was the pillion rider collided with a utility pole in D’ Edward Village, West Coast Berbice on Monday night.

Wascar Castillo who was jointly charged in New York with former Guyana Health Minister, Dr Noel Blackman for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone has been jailed for 36 months.

Two young men were yesterday denied bail after they were charged with stealing over $1 million in cash and electronics in an armed robbery.

Director of the Food and Drug Department, Marlan Cole has been ordered to show cause why his prohibition of Ancient County Full Cream Evaporated Milk shouldn’t be quashed.

A group of Queen’s College old students have taken the initiative to rehabilitate the school’s recreational field and have committed to attend to its maintenance for at least the next six months.

A mason of Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara, (EBD), died at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was stabbed on Monday night, and police have arrested a relative of the dead man following reports which suggest that she is the alleged perpetrator.

Host Guyana ended the Junior Caribbean Table Tennis championship, overall third after copping three silver and seven bronze medals respectively behind first place The Dominican Republic and runners up Barbados when the curtain came down on the tournament last evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to end nearly a week of intense competition between over a 100 cadet and junior table tennis players from 10 different territories.

A security guard of Tabatinga, Lethem, Region Nine, was stabbed to death during an attempted robbery while he was making his way home during the wee hours of yesterday and the police are currently on the hunt for his assailant.

Although the inaugural visit of FIFA President Giovanni ‘Gianni’ Infantino for the sod turning exercise at the site of Guyana’s first Forward Programme facility, the Providence Community Ground, was historic, the brief but high profile event certainly masked the shortcomings currently associated with the sport locally.

A man, who allegedly threatened to shoot at a police constable, was yesterday morning shot dead by the rank.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Chief selector Courtney Browne believes Vishaul Singh can provide added stability in the West Indies middle order, during the upcoming Test series against Pakistan.

Legal action looms against the club patron who allegedly attacked visiting Trinidadian soca singer Rodney “Benjai” Le Blanc on Sunday morning in front of the Palm Court nightclub on Main Street leaving him with a wound that required 25 stitches.

Melanie `B’ were crowned the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ East Coast of Demerara champions after edging Plaisance `B’ 1-0 at the Haslington Market Tarmac on Sunday.

A complaint was made last year to the Ministry of Health by a Berbice nurse against Region 5 councilor Carol Joseph that she was using her office to obtain unusual amounts of a prescription painkiller from the Fort Wellington Hospital.

The wait has whittled to just three days for first time competing bodybuilders eager to don their posing trunks and showcase their chiseled physiques.

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the construction of a Law Enforcement Building Annex at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.

Former national middle distance champion Waveney Benn last week donated a quantity of sports equipment to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

On Sunday, Dexter ‘De Kid’ Marques clashes with Venezuelan, Luis Alberto Requena in what promises to be an explosive match on the ‘Locked and Loaded’ card at the Giftland Mall.

Although government says it is committed to the protection of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community, it has informed the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that “much more” has to be done on an approach towards prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as repealing laws that criminalize homosexuality.

RAJKOT, India, CMC – West Indies superstar Chris Gayle became the first batsman to score 10 000 runs in Twenty20s, when he belted a typically bellicose half-century to fire Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 21-run win over Dwayne Smith’s Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

A taxi driver, allegedly caught with 32 amphetamine tablets at the Pegasus Hotel, was remanded to prison yesterday after a court heard that he attempted to sell the substance to a policeman.

KENOSHA, Wis.,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a review of the U.S.

Dear Editor, We refer to a letter of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) which appeared in the April 13, 2017 edition of Stabroek News under the hand of the Company’s Senior Communications Officer, Ms Audreyanna Thomas and headlined `GAWU’s response to GuySuCo’s challenges has been to call or support strike action’.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May called yesterday for an early election on June 8, saying she needed to strengthen her hand in divorce talks with the European Union by bolstering support for her Brexit plan.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago Red Force ended an otherwise disappointing Regional four-day campaign on a high when they crushed Leeward Islands Hurricanes by an innings and 17 runs here yesterday.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he is still awaiting feedback from some potential nominees that he has shortlisted for the post of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), while one has already declined.

Dear Editor, I am troubled .When I recall the news of the death of a premature baby at the West Demerara Hospital, the circumstances surrounding the death, and the response, I am troubled.

Dear Editor, The attempt last year by Caricom to engineer the dissolution of the WICB, and the recent testy exchanges between the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, and an unnamed WICB director, may lead observers of West Indies cricket administration to believe the tumultuous tenure of Dave Cameron is unique in our cricket history.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Not even a stunning half-century from rookie Fabian Allen could prevent Jamaica Scorpions from a sudden collapse, as they crashed to a 26-run defeat to Barbados Pride in their final match of the Regional four-day championship here yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Discovery Communications , owner of Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, will build a $400 million theme park in Costa Rica, the government said yesterday.

EUSTATIUS/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company, PDVSA, sent a tanker in October to the Caribbean with the expectation that its cargo of crude would fetch about $20 million – money the crisis-stricken nation desperately needs.

Four days after he was rearrested, Regan Rodrigues, the man accused of murdering political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, was yesterday brought to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, where police were unable to get him to go into a courtroom.

Falling on “hard times” was Eon Sampson’s excuse for why police found him with two pounds of cannabis, which yesterday resulted in him being sentenced to three years in jail and fined $3.1 million.

(Trinidad Express) Mechanic Wazir Ramjohn will never legally drive again. He was on Monday permanently disqualified from driving after he appeared in court on his third charge of being behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol.

ERIE, Pa.,  (Reuters) – A murder suspect who police said posted a video on Facebook of the killing of a Cleveland man fatally shot himself after a “brief pursuit” by Pennsylvania State Police officers on Tuesday, police said.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick to send Real Madrid through to the Champions League semi-finals with a 4-2 extra-time win and 6-3 aggregate success against 10-man Bayern Munich in controversial circumstances yesterday.

Dear Editor, I met someone who was in a jolly mood, delighted and excited over a book of proverbs I had sold him.

Forrester Gravesande, the Jonestown, Mahaica man accused of fatally beating his neighbour, was charged with his murder and remanded to prison last Thursday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Congressional police in riot gear used tear gas to drive back hundreds of members of federal police unions who tried to invade the Brazilian Congress yesterday to protest a pension reform bill that would reduce their benefits.

Last Saturday, 15th April was the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, founder leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (commonly referred to as North Korea), and observed as the Day of the Sun, the most important national holiday in that country.

Dear Editor, Both the 3rd to last and the 2nd to last paragraphs of SN’s editorial of April 7, 2017, recaptured similar conclusions arrived at some thirty odd years ago in a major comprehensive study: “The Organizational Effective-ness of the University of Guyana: A Case Study of an Emerging University in a National Development Context” (Perry,C.O.,1985.).

‘Reasonable comprehensive doctrines, religious or non-religious, may be introduced in public political discussion at any time … provided that in due course proper political reasons – and not reasons given solely by comprehensive doctrines – are presented that are sufficient to support whatever the comprehensive doctrines are said to support’ (John Rawls.

(The Sports Xchange) – Kawhi Leonard poured in a career-playoff-high 37 points, and five San Antonio players scored in double figures as the Spurs defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 96-82 at the AT&T Center on Monday in Game 2 of a Western Conference first-round playoff series.

YANGON,  (Reuters) – A Myanmar publisher whose magazine has criticised the military, political and business establishment was found stabbed to death in his office at the weekend, police said on Tuesday.