Daily Archive: Saturday, May 20, 2017

President David Granger arrived this afternoon in Saudi Arabia to attend the inaugural Arab-Islamic-American Summit, which is being held under the theme ‘Together We Prevail’.

The government today said that floods were receding six Region Eight villages and that some villages in Region Seven have now been affected.

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Under political fire at home, U.S. President Donald Trump sealed a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia on Saturday on his maiden foreign trip as he struggled to shift attention from the aftermath of his firing of the director of the FBI.

(Trinidad Guardian) Property owners can breathe a sign of relief after a High Court judge last evening granted a temporary halt with immediate effect to the enforcement and implementation of the Valuation Return Form, commonly called Property Tax Form.

DUBAI/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Iranians yearning for more freedom at home and less isolation abroad have emphatically re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, throwing down a challenge to the conservative clergy that still holds ultimate sway.

With dozens of homes in Region Eight submerged and washed away by rain-swollen rivers, the Head of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) yesterday described the situation as “grim” and several flights ferried emergency supplies to affected residents.

An employee of the Materials Management Unit (MMU) of the Ministry of Public Health was yesterday charged with stealing blood sugar test strips from the Diamond bond, even as the ministry announced that two more workers had resigned in wake of what it called the police’s “smashing” of a suspected drug theft ring at the facility.

Before taking her final breath, an Amelia’s Ward mother of five yesterday wrote in sand that it was her husband who had fatally stabbed her and he was later held by police, who shot him when they cornered him in a wooded area.

Six former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) members, including two opposition parliamentarians, were yesterday charged with failing to record entries for funds amounting to over $250 million in total in the agency’s general ledger.

The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday condemned the decision of the Special Organised Crimes Unit (SOCU) to arrest and charge six former members of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB), including two of its parliamentarians, saying that it is the most recent act of political victimisation by the government.

Members of the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community have taken to sharing their coming out stories via social media, in an effort to raise awareness of the challenges they face with societal acceptance.

Fast bowler Ronsford Beaton is the lone Guyanese in the West Indies T20 squad to face Afghanistan in the side’s upcoming tour of the Caribbean.

Saying that Guyana’s leaders “must encourage healing and reconciliation,” the Carter Center has urged reforms to the constitution and the election laws to ensure “more inclusivity and accountability” in the country’s system of governance.

Municipalities have to become commercial hubs and elected officials have to go out and ensure that development is taking place, President David Granger yesterday urged municipal leaders.

The Mumbai Indians stormed their way to the VIVO IPL 2017 Final after they defeated the Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets in Qualifier 2 yesterday.

Beverage giant, Banks DIH Limited and Mohan’s Construction Inc. are now onboard as corporate partners for the Independence 5K Health & Fitness Walk and 5K run.

The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) has launched an investigation into why the MV Kanawan was out of fuel on Monday and unable to leave the Supenaam Stelling as scheduled.

A Police Constable died yesterday morning at the New Amsterdam Hospital, hours after he crashed into an escaped psychiatric patient along the Borlam Public Road, East Coast Berbice.

A month after his former co-accused admitted guilt and were sentenced for their roles in a series of 2009 crimes, Colin Jones yesterday copped to 12 charges, including three counts of manslaughter, the attempted murder of policemen and setting a section of the Supreme Court on fire, for which he will spend the next 25 years behind bars.

Massy Guyana, one of the country’s leading distribution companies has once again honored their social commitment.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Fast bowling seemed to have been uppermost in the minds of the West Indies selection panel, when they chose the 13-member squad for their upcoming three Twenty20 Internationals against Afghanistan next month in St.

A fugitive is among four men who were arrested yesterday in the city by police, who also recovered a gun and matching ammunition in one of the two vehicles in which the men were travelling.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – Reigning world Under-19 champions West Indies will face the son of legendary South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini when they visit in July.

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has denied that the government promised to pay rice farmers in Berbice $9,000 a bag for paddy and has challenged the opposition PPP/C to name the person who made the promise.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – The Australian cricket board faces an uphill battle to convince players to jettison a revenue-sharing model that has underpinned the game’s development for 20 years, according to former union boss Tim May, who brokered the landmark deal in 1997.

The establishment of a Tumor Board may be relevant for the development of standardized practices locally in prostate cancer treatment, including reducing the amount of time patients spend getting tested rather than being treated.

The police on the Esse-quibo Coast are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man, who was found dead in a trench at Onderneem-ing, Essequibo Coast, on Friday morning, just over a day after he discharged himself from the Suddie Public Hospital, where he had been admitted.

(Reuters) – Austria’s Dominic Thiem dumped seven-times champion Rafael Nadal out of the Italian Open 6-4 6-3 yesterday to reach the semi-finals.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s top court released plea-bargain testimony yesterday accusing President Michel Temer and his two predecessors of receiving millions of dollars in bribes, the most damaging development yet in a historic political corruption probe.

A Norton Street man was yesterday sentenced to spend the next two years in jail after he admitted to possession of a gun and ammunition as well as a small quantity of marijuana.

Travis McDougall was yesterday afternoon convicted for manslaughter in the 2014 killing of businessman Ashok Raghoo, who was fatally shot during a robbery at a traffic light at Vlissengen Road and Regent Street.

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to a letter titled, ‘It is the House not the Speaker which has the power to remove a motion from the Order Paper’, from Ms Gail Teixeira in the May 17th issue of your newspaper.

MONTREAL, Canada, CMC – The World Anti-Doping Agency’s Foundation Board has approved the development of a framework that specifies a range of graded, proportionate and predictable consequences for national Olympic committees that are non-compliant.

Artist/designer Sameer Khan recently announced that he is gay as he no longer wants to hide who he really is, and believes that his ‘coming out’ would assist those in the Lesbian Bisexual Gay & Transgender (LBGT) community who continue to be stigmatised and discriminated against.

DUBAI/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Vote counting began in Iran yesterday after a high turnout in an unexpectedly tight presidential election pitting President Hassan Rouhani, who wants to normalise ties with the West, against a hardline judge who says he has already gone too far.

(Reuters) – Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz has been suspended for two months for failing to report a suspect approach to indulge in corruption, the country’s cricket board has said.

Dear Editor, No one can sensibly dispute that an independent and effective judiciary is not only the sine qua non of any democracy, but it is the very foundation upon which the edifice of civil society rests.

Hi Everyone, Eat and drink your belly full of sweet juicy watermelon but don’t toss the rind; cook it.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blasted Donald Trump yesterday after a fresh round of U.S.

Armed bandits terrorized a Diamond Housing Scheme family yesterday in a pre-dawn home invasion, in which they stole approximately $1.5 million in cash and jewellery.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Neymar and several other top Brazilian players have been left out of the national squad for friendlies next month against Argentina and Australia, coach Tite said yesterday, giving some of them a long summer break for the first time since 2010.

Growing up, I recollect hearing of two golden rules when it came to dressing.

Dear Editor; Wasn’t Hatree Partners, founded by the Hess Corporation?  Is the Hess Corporation a 30% stakeholder in the ExxonMobil project?

STOCKHOLM/LONDON, (Reuters) – Swedish prosecutors dropped an investigation of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday over a rape allegation, but British police said he would still be arrested if he left the Ecuadorean embassy in London where he has been holed up for five years.

The Humanities, at its best, teaches us to think and to consider the act of creativity.

(Reuters) – Garbine Muguruza flashed some impressive form ahead of her French Open title defence with a 6-2 3-6 6-2 win over Venus Williams yesterday to reach the semi-finals of the Italian Open in Rome.

Tishauna Bess, the school teacher, who was found dead in her home on Wednesday, died from hanging, according to a post-mortem examination.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump was hit yesterday by embarrassing leaks that a senior adviser was a “person of interest” in a probe of possible collusion with Russia during last year’s election campaign and that Trump had boasted to Russian officials of firing the man heading the investigation.

Applause reigns in whenever professional dancer Indira Itwaru sways her hips to the rhythm of the various Indian classical, Kathak, Indian folk, Contemporary, Guyanese Chutney, African folk, Chinese and Portuguese dances at shows around Guyana and worldwide.

Dear Editor, Not so long ago radio in Guyana was totally controlled by government, and I recall a period when the mixture of programming was well balanced and offered something for everyone, although one’s favourites were at times much too short.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Maria Sharapova will probably have to win 10 matches to claim a second Wimbledon title this year after deciding yesterday not to request a wildcard for the championships.

Designer Shan Anthony Seecharran under the label SAS Designs will tomorrow night release his latest line ‘Golden Treasure’ at the Millennium Manor Hotel on Hadfield Street.

NEW YORK/LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – After the first OPEC oil production cut in eight years took effect in January, oil traders from Houston to Singapore started emptying millions of barrels of crude from storage tanks.

In 1978 the writer John McPhee began a series of journeys across the United States to inspect rock formations along the 40th parallel, and to meet the geologists who examined and interpreted them.

Minister of Social Cohesion Dr. George Norton remained in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday, one day after being admitted to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.

Dear Editor, There is the question I must answer quickly about the upcoming Indian tour.

Did they assume that I was in danger of losing my way?