Daily Archive: Tuesday, May 30, 2017

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Grease” actress and singer Olivia Newton-John said on Tuesday that her breast cancer has returned and spread to her lower back.

The police say that a thirty-six year old farmer of Champagne, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara was yesterday afternoon arrested and placed in custody for allegedly attempting to bribe two ranks stationed at the Mahaicony Police Station with $150,000 to release his brother Bishomit Rajkumar who is in custody awaiting to be escorted to the Georgetown Prison to commence a two-year sentence for Unlawful Wounding committed on Asif Alli of Champagne, Mahaicony, ECD, which was handed down in absentia on May 12, 2017.

After major repairs, the Liliendaal Bridge on the East Coast Railway Embankment has been reopened.

Terrence Ramlochan, a thirty-one-year-old contractor of North Better Hope, East Coast Demerara who was shot in the upper region of the right side of his chest during an attempted robbery in front of his premises last night, is hospitalised at a private hospital, in a stable condition, the police said today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government Information Services Limited (GISL) will be no more and its 60 employees will be sent home, Minister of Communications Maxie Cuffie confirmed yesterday.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who spied for the United States before his drug trafficking and brutality triggered a U.S.

Private sector organisations yesterday urged the government to stay plans to close sugar factories, while offering their “considerable experience” to explore alternative options to sustain the sugar industry.

Residents of Chenapau Village, Region Eight yesterday protested Sunday afternoon’s arrest of almost two dozen persons – most of whom reside in Chenapau – during a covert raid of the Kaieteur National Park (KNP) against illegal mining.

A Ministry of Public Health worker was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with the rape of a 14-year-old boy.

  A report of 200 persons being blacklisted by the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) is a fabrication, police said yesterday while giving a breakdown of those barred from leaving Guyana during the last ten years, which it said totalled 139.

A 34-year-old Corentyne woman succumbed to her injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital around 7.30 pm on Sunday, after her common-law husband battered her with an iron rod and a piece of wood sometime last week.

Venezuela’s Ambassador here, Reina Diaz, has formally asked the Guyana Government for support for Caracas at international fora and Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge has said that he will transmit this request.

Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan yesterday said that neither he nor President David Granger were ready to name their nominees for the long-delayed Local Government Commission (LGC) and he maintained that in its absence the local government system was functioning effectively.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a Finance Director of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) were asked to leave a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing yesterday after they were unable to answer the questions that were being posed to them.

Two fishermen were yesterday charged with the murder of Corentyne boat captain Mahadeo Ramdial, who drowned after a pirate attack two weeks ago, while the brother of one of the accused was charged with aiding and abetting them during police investigations.

A businessman was killed early yesterday morning after he was struck off of his motorcycle by one of two vehicles that collided after their drivers failed to stop at the intersection of Camp and Middle streets, Georgetown.

The opening round of the Guyana Cricket Board, Hand-In-Hand Inter-County Under–19 tournament was abandoned without a ball being bowled at the Everest Cricket Club and Police Sports Club grounds yesterday.

Human rights activist and author Sukree Boodram lost her battle with cancer on Saturday morning.

Albouystown upset Back Circle, while Future Stars downed Broad Street when the inaugural Xtreme Clean/GT Beer ‘Gold Rush’ Futsal Championship continued on Sunday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

As flood waters recede from the Upper Mazaruni area of Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), the Middle Mazaruni is being affected and a team will visit shortly to assess the situation and see what relief can be given.

Pele FC, Thomas United, Newtown Kitty and Plaisance won their matches when the Alex Bunbury Sports and Academic Academy (ABSAA) coordinated ‘Clash of Veterans’ Football tournament continued on Sunday.

A carpenter was yesterday fined $60,000 after he admitted to taking four packets of cigarettes, hidden in his long boots, into the Camp Street Prison.

The road to the South American U-20 Championships has been set for 50 athletes who will carry the Golden Arrowhead at the 2017 edition of the prestigious Games here at the National Track and Field Centre this weekend.

A mechanical glitch on a Fly Jamaica plane was the reason for a recent delay in flights, affecting passengers en-route to Guyana from Toronto, Canada and New York, United States.

Guyana’s leading supplement and fitness products supplier, Fitness Express has once again thrown its support behind 2016 CAC silver medalist and two-time National Men’s Physique Champion, Emmerson Campbell.

A minibus conductor was yesterday charged in a city court with the theft of a car, which police say he admitted to stripping.

Dear Editor, Henry Jeffrey is entirely correct when he notes that the building of social cohesion in Guyana requires the “the establishment of the appropriate consensus-building governance mechanisms” and, further, without changing the course of governance in Guyana, the policy recommendations in the Draft Strategic Plan for Social Cohesion in Guyana, 2017-2021 would be “mere platitudes” (‘The strategic plan for social cohesion’, SN May 24, 2017).

A wrench has been thrown into the spokes of Guyana’s flagship cycling event, the Three-Stage Independence Road Race.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) refers to Mr Eric Phillips’ letter ‘All voices of reason must step forward on GuySuCo,’ which appeared in the May 29 Stabroek News.

The analysis and review of ExxonMobil’s Liza 1 Field Development Plan, which was done by international consulting company WorleyParsons (Intecsea) in collaboration with the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has been completed and a preliminary report given to government last week.

Dear Editor, I had to pass a specific place several times before an epiphany came. 

LONDON, (Reuters) – Seamers Kagiso Rabada and Wayne Parnell wreaked early havoc to set the platform for an easy South African victory in the third and final one-day International against England at Lords’ yesterday.

An Albouystown man was yesterday remanded to prison for alleged cocaine possession, while another man was granted his release on bail for alleged possession of a utensil used to smoke cocaine.

A Trinidadian national was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of being found with almost two pounds of cannabis.

Dear Editor, Please be good enough to find space for this apology, which Ms Sandra Jones, of SV Jones Associates, and Gecom Commissioner would wish to make to all those persons who could not reach her by email, to congratulate her on the National Award of the Golden Arrow of Achievement for her contribution to public service.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS, England, CMC – Barbadian Jofra Archer struck a cameo as part of a brave rearguard effort but his efforts failed to prevent Sussex from crashing to a 147-run defeat at the hands of Kent in the English County Championship here yesterday.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel underlined her doubts about the reliability of the United States as an ally yesterday but said she was a “convinced trans-Atlanticist”, fine-tuning her message after surprising Washington with her frankness a day earlier.

Dear Editor, Sean Ori queries ‘Why is PPP/C not regenerating itself?’

LONDON, (Reuters) – Refreshed Australia pace spearhead Mitchell Starc is confident of regaining his rhythm quickly for the Champions Trophy after being sidelined nearly three months with a foot injury.

Nikosi Corbin, the four-year-old child who was injured in a crash during last week is slowly recovering from a surgery to his leg, which he underwent on Sunday.

ROME (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday urged Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologise to indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church’s treatment of aboriginal children in schools it ran there.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra resigned yesterday and will move to Madrid to be closer to her family, President Mauricio Macri said.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Defending men and women’s champions Novak Djokovic and Garbine Muguruza got off to winning starts at the French Open yesterday, with the Serb cruising past Spain’s Marcel Granollers and Muguruza seeing off 2010 winner Francesca Schiavone.

VERSAILLES, France (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron rolled out the red carpet for Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday, but past suspicions of Russian meddling in the French election resurfaced with Macron denouncing Russian media and Putin denying hacking allegations.

Dear Editor, The Guyanese voters did their part in 2011 and 2015.

A date was set yesterday for the start of the trial of former Attorney-General Anil Nandlall, who is charged with fraudulently converting over $2 million in law reports, which were the property of the Ministry of Legal Affairs.

Dear Editor, Ganga Persaud’s letter (‘Rice farmers are being exploited by the millers’, SN May 27) correctly sums up the frightening state of the rice industry and the total disrespect that is shown to the people who provide this staple diet to all Guyanese.

(Reuters) – Former world No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods was arrested in South Florida early on Monday on a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to an online Palm Beach County Police report.

A recurring theme in the broader political criticism of the Burnham and Hoyte administrations by the then opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had to do with what the PPP felt was the high cost to the nation of financing the diplomatic service as it related to frequent travel, salaries and allowances in addition to the residential costs of keeping a number of diplomats at post in foreign counties.

CARACAS (Reuters) – The president of Venezuela’s opposition-run Congress yesterday accused Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs of “aiding and abetting the country’s dictatorial regime” following a report that it had bought $2.8 billion in bonds from the cash-strapped country.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Two Venezuelan opposition leaders were wounded yesterday by security forces dispersing protests in the capital Caracas against President Nicolas Maduro, according to one of the leaders and an opposition legislator.

The accused in the murder of Charlestown youth Gregory Garraway, who died in hospital after he was shot during a robbery last October, was yesterday committed to stand trial for the crime in the High Court.

There is a big irony in Latin America’s latest headlines: While many of us in the media are writing articles about the corruption scandal that is rocking Brazil, as we certainly should, few are paying any attention to the vastly greater corruption taking place in Venezuela.