Articles published on Thursday, June 1, 2017
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump today said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, a move that fulfilled a major campaign pledge but drew condemnation from U.S.
The Hydrometeorological Service this afternoon issued a warning about impending heavy rainfaill.
(Trinidad Guardian) Law enforcement officers yesterday raised concerns about the security in place at this country’s ports of entry, after they discovered three high-powered assault rifles – AK47s – in a barrel containing loose dog food at the El Socorro Bond area of Piarco Air Services.
The government yesterday received a report on an inquiry into how the anti-narcotics agency, CANU and the GDF handled the interception of a vessel which was later busted on the high seas by US-led forces with a huge amount of cocaine.
A School of the Nations student and a carpenter were yesterday charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of businessman Derek Mangal.
Policy uncertainty and ambivalence by the APNU+AFC government towards domestic investors has contributed to the depreciation of the local currency and a slide in Foreign Domestic Investment (FDI) last year is also another a sign that the administration is on the wrong track, according to economist Tarron Khemraj.
The inaugural Guyana Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride festival was launched on Thursday with religious leaders decrying discriminatory laws against these persons.
An agent from the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) was among four persons who were denied bail at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of trafficking in 84.9 kilos of cocaine.
Support for Guyana’s public health sector is “priority” for China says Shen Huiyong, Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Guyana.
(Trinidad Express) Simon A Wade, a former Canadian high commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago, has passed away.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has issued a notice advising real estate agents and brokers that they are to comply with the obligations outlined in the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/ CFT) Act No.
The investigation into the alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger has come to a standstill in the absence of a confrontation that was ordered to be held with another witness.
The elections commissioners have not been meeting because of the non-appointment of a Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Chairman, according to Com-missioner representing the PPP/C, Sase Gunraj who last evening said that this situation is stymying their work.
Even as mining syndicates’ representatives yesterday vowed to “continue protesting and making noise” until they get what they need, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman says he has finally gotten the advice he needs to map the way forward.
Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Patrick West, yesterday received a courtesy call from the mother of the baby girl who was delivered aboard a GDF aircraft on May 27, 2017.
A Princes Street resident who was charged with having over 20 grammes of marijuana in his possession, was yesterday remanded to prison.
West Indies under – 19 player Bhaskar Yadram produced a sensational all-round performance to guide defending champions Demerara to a commanding eight-wicket victory over Berbice at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, yesterday in the Guyana Cricket Board, Hand-In-Hand one day competition.
Adesh Mulloo, also known as ‘Cow Curry’, of Number 58 Village, Corentyne, late yesterday accompanied by his lawyer, Mursaline Bacchus, turned himself into police custody at the New Amsterdam Police Station, according to the Commander of B Division, Ian Amsterdam.
The seventh Digicel Schools football Championships was officially launched yesterday at the West Demerara Secondary School.
Transport Sports Club (TSC) and and Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) played to a draw in the Well Teen, Trophy Stall, Tropical Springs & Nauth Motor Spares Under – 13 cricket tournament at the Gandhi Youth Organisation Ground (GYO) over the weekend.
When Georgina French Edwards’s name was called as the winner of the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s housing lottery, at the Housing Solutions 2017 and Beyond Exposi-tion on Sunday, she said she felt like she was living a dream, GINA reported yesterday.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board yesterday formally announced the much anticipated name change to Cricket West Indies, saying the rebranding accurately represented the function of the governing body.
Sugar production for this year is down in the Caribbean and for the period 2016/17, the projected output is 406,000 tonnes.
The Chief Magistrate yesterday fined three Venezuelan women after they were charged separately with entering the country illegally in search of a better life.
Five of the 12 overseas delegations for the South American U-20 Championships arrived yesterday.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon yesterday said that even as climate change is addressed at the national level, communities must also be equipped with the necessary tools, training and knowledge since this is where the effects are most felt.
MOMBASA, Kenya, (Reuters) – Kenya inaugurated a $3.2 billion railway funded by China linking the capital Nairobi to the port of Mombasa yesterday, the country’s biggest infrastructure project since independence more than 50 years ago.
The boat captain, who was arrested after he was allegedly found with an unlicensed firearm and a matching round, was yesterday remanded to prison after being read the charges by a city magistrate.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic and nine-time winner Rafa Nadal cruised through to the third round with comprehensive wins at the French Open yesterday.
Dear Editor, It continues to irritate me when I read stories like the one relating to an SUV which is allegedly using a false number plate and is able to get away with it because the owner is a powerful government contractor.
The Ministry of Public Health yesterday held a mini health fair to sensitise the public about the consequences of tobacco use in observance of World No Tobacco Day.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces used water cannons and teargas to disperse tens of thousands of opposition protesters heading toward the foreign ministry yesterday as the Organization of American States held another meeting on the crisis.
Dear Editor, I refer to a letter carried in your newspaper, ‘Plantain chip factory at Leguan not feasible’ (May 28), in which the writer Charles Sohan predicts that the factory will be another “white elephant” and concludes that the project “has been born in the chequered development annals of the present Administration…” I wish to inform the public, in particular Mr Sohan, that this project actually began in 2014 and was conceived under the previous administration.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England director of cricket Andrew Strauss believes the vital experience gained from sending the country’s players to the Indian Premier League (IPL) far outweighs the risk of them picking up injuries during the Twenty20 tournament.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday said he was open to discussing letting more than 50,000 victims of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake stay in the United States past next January.
A domestic worker was yesterday remanded to prison, after she denied being in possession of one gramme of cocaine.
Dear Editor, Amerindians mining for their daily subsistence in Chenapau and the surrounding area is nothing new.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Twenty20 World Cup star, Johnson Charles, stroked a half-century but was the only bright spark as Afghanistan opened their limited overs tour of the Caribbean with a 12-run victory over the WICB President’s XI here Tuesday night.
Dear Editor, With regard to the photograph of Minister of Public Health alongside the Mayor of Georgetown cutting the ribbon to reopen the Albouystown Health Centre in today’s edition, I am struck to ask whether it would not have been more prudent, more appropriate, more apt to have had the councillor representative of Albouystown do the honours?
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A political feud erupted yesterday over the U.S.
President David Granger, on Tuesday evening, paid homage to his former history lecturer at the University of Guyana (UG), Sister Mary Noel Menezes, who at age 87, launched her new book entitled ‘Guyana and the Wider World’, which features a collection of her essays and addresses.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Discarded two-time Twenty20 World Cup-winning captain Darren Sammy has blamed West Indies’ recent travails in the one-day format on the controversial eligibility rule which has robbed the Caribbean side of its senior players.
Two men, accused of breaking into a home and stealing $200,000 worth of items, were charged with the offence yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – CNN fired comedian Kathy Griffin from its annual New Year’s Eve broadcast yesterday after she drew strong criticism for posing in photographs holding up the likeness of a bloody, severed head resembling U.S.
DALLAS, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp’s chief executive said yesterday the company would reconsider how it communicates the risks its faces from climate change after shareholders approved a measure calling for increased transparency.
(Reuters) – List of National Basketball Association champions: 2016 – Cleveland Cavaliers def.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May could lose control of parliament in Bri-tain’s June 8 election, according to a projection by polling company YouGov, raising the prospect of political turmoil just as formal Brexit talks begin.
Dear Editor, I refer to the article titled, ‘ICE arrests illegal Guyanese man in NY’ (SN, May 31).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump came under pressure yesterday from corporate CEOs, U.S.
Dear Editor, The dust from the destruction wrought in Manchester on May 22 by Salman Abedi, described by British media as a “radicalised Muslim”, and his accomplices has not yet settled, and now we have the news of yet another suicide bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S.
(Reuters) – An NBA season that has had little in the way of drama will come to a gripping close over the next two weeks when two familiar foes fittingly battle in the Finals for an unprecedented third consecutive year.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The “Saturday Night Fever” dance floor where John Travolta captured the 1970s disco craze is going up for sale next month and could fetch up to $1.5 million, the auctioneers said yesterday.
A woman was yesterday afternoon taken into custody after the police unearthed a quantity of cannabis in a haversack she had in her possession.
As carefree children dancing in the magical moonlight during hot nights of electricity blackouts, we would gaze up in wonder at the full glowing orb and compete to pinpoint the fabled “man on the moon.”
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.
SOL Guyana Inc yesterday said it is sprucing up stations in its retail chain and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Charge d’Affaires of the Venezuelan Embassy, Luis Gutierrez, said the Nicolas Maduro administration remains committed to bilateral agreements between the troubled South American nation and its Caribbean counterparts, including Jamaica.
KABUL, (Reuters) – A powerful bomb hidden in a sewage tanker exploded in the morning rush hour in the centre of Kabul yesterday, killing at least 80 people, wounding hundreds more and damaging embassy buildings in the Afghan capital’s unofficial “Green Zone”.
In April, the Stabroek News Business section had reported on a glut in greens and vegetables on the local market.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Basketball superstar LeBron James’ Los Angeles home was vandalized with a racial slur, police said yesterday, one day before the Cleveland Cavaliers player was set to take the court in the first game of the NBA finals, The graffiti was spray-painted on the front gate of James’ house and investigators are looking for any possible suspect involved in the vandalism, said Los Angeles police spokeswoman Norma Eisenman.
Dear Editor, I extend warm greetings and best wishes to our Guyanese children, here and in the diaspora.
(Reuters) – Japanese investment bank Nomura Securities bought about $100 million worth of Venezuelan government bonds last week as part of the same transaction that has landed Goldman Sachs Group Inc in the middle of a political controversy, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
