Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 4, 2017

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Superstar opener Chris Gayle has been named in a West Indies 13-man squad to face India in the one-off Twenty20 International at Sabina Park on Sunday.

Members of the NYPD/U.S. Marshals Joint Fugitive Task Force apprehended murder suspect Marcus Bisram in the Rockaways, New York at about 1 pm today, according to the New York Daily News.

The European Union (EU) today apologised for magnifying by 10 times the size of the support it had given to Guyana’s sugar industry.

Professional Guard Service (PGS) today said that the three men who attacked Republic Bank on Water Street this morning wore masks, carried hand guns and opened fire on bank staff in the premises.

Republic Bank Guyana (Limited) today lauded the performance of the police and security services during an attempted robbery at its Water Street branch this morning.

The police were this morning in a shootout with four men who attempted to rob Republic Bank Limited on Water Street.

(Trinidad Express) There is a $100 million illegal gun trade in this country and some of the drugs and guns are being smuggled in via jet skis and possibly through 40 per cent of containers at the ports that are given a “green light” without any checks.

Day Two of the 2017 Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) National Senior Championships lived up to its dramatic billing yesterday at the National Track and Field Centre as the junior athletes once again dominated proceedings.

Guyana’s junior squash players dominated the semifinals to storm their way into four individual singles finals today after downing the region’s top players in the 2017 Junior Caribbean Squash Championship at the Georgetown Club yesterday.

Flooding due to heavy rainfall and the cresting of rivers in Region Nine has left dozens of farms across the South Rupununi inundated, while cutting off crucial movement between communities.

Two-time defending Region #5 champions Bush Lot Secondary, sealed their third consecutive berth to the zone final by crushing Rosignol Secondary 8-1 yesterday in the 7th Annual Digicel Schools Football Championships.

A 29-year-old Guyhoc Park resident is now dead and another man is critically injured following a stabbing incident on Friday afternoon at Water Street, Stabroek, Georgetown.

Monedderlust FC humbled Hopetown United by a 3-0 margin, when the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) u17 League Championship continued on Friday at the Number 5 ground, Berbice.

Eighteen-year-old Sarafena Martin got the scare of her life when she went to pick up her nephew at the Farm Nursery School on Friday and saw a caiman coming out of the weed-infested trench.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Captain Jason Holder believes Sunday’s remarkable come-from-behind win over India is proof of the quality cricket West Indies is capable of playing but said his side were still aiming to put together the ideal performance.

The region’s post-Brexit trade with the United Kingdom, the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy and the Cotonou Agreement are among a wide range of issues that will be discussed during the Thirty-Eighth Regular Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), which opens today in Grenada, Secretary General Irwin LaRocque said yesterday.

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) has accused the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) of engaging in scaremongering over warnings that the Wales workers would lose their jobs if they miss two consecutive crops.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – India’s batting coach Sanjay Bangar has criticised the pitch at the Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium but says there was no excuse for his side failing to overhaul the modest 189 set by West Indies in Sunday’s fourth One-Day International here.

LONGWY, France, (Reuters) – World champion Peter Sagan suffered a pedal problem in the final straight but slotted his shoe back into its clip in time and powered to victory in the third stage of the Tour de France yesterday.

A two-bedroom unoccupied house belonging to an elderly couple at Met-en-meerzorg west, Railway View, West Coast Demerara was destroyed by fire around 8 pm yesterday in a suspected arson.

Dear Editor, It has oft been remarked that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Venus Williams broke down in tears during her post-match news conference at Wimbledon yesterday when asked about a recent motoring incident she was involved in, which led to the death of a 78 year old Florida man.

Residents of Coldingen, East Coast Demerara are frustrated about the unacceptable state of some of the streets in the community which they say have been severely affecting their daily lives for several years now.

The driver who allegedly struck down a so far unidentified man along the Swan Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Sunday evening is in custody, the police said.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s foes announced plans yesterday for an unofficial referendum to let Venezuelans have their say on his plan to rewrite the constitution and the opposition’s alternative push for an election to replace him.

Dear Editor, This year’s Grade 6 youngsters drove themselves ever upward in high gear. 

LEICESTER, England, CMC – West Indies Women’s already troubled ICC World Cup campaign received another blow on Monday when the new-ball pair of Shamilia Connell and Shakera Selman were ruled out of the tournament with injury.

The Hague (Reuters) – Costa Rica asked the highest UN court yesterday to establish its maritime boundaries with Nicaragua once and for all to end repeated border disputes with its Central American neighbour.

The Region Six business community was on Sunday encouraged to develop proposals for the ailing sugar industry, pursue diversification options and invest in technology-driven business ideas.

Dear Editor, I joined a long, slow moving but fairly orderly line of traffic Sunday afternoon at Schoonord, on the Western side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – Teenaged opener Hayley Matthews says West Indies Women are still hopeful of making the final four of the ICC Women’s World Cup, despite their nightmare start to the tournament.

Dear Editor, Once again, the children of Guyana have suffered the consequences of the traumatizing and obsolete National Grade 6 Assessment, known as Common Entrance.

(Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested former minister Geddel Vieira Lima as part of an investigation into loans that state bank Caixa Econômica Federal extended to meatpacking, finance, toll road and real estate companies between 2011 and 2013, the prosecutor-general’s office said.

Several months after the nominees for the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/ CFT) Authority were vetted by police, their names are yet to be submitted to the National Assembly for approval.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government has banned Brazilian builder Odebrecht SA from bidding on public works projects for 12 months, a spokesman for the interior ministry said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump discussed hot-button issues like climate change, trade and migration in calls with German and Italian leaders yesterday, before a summit this week of the G20 leading economies that could expose sharp policy differences.

Dear Editor, The Organization of American States (OAS) held a foreign ministers’ meeting from June 19-21 in Cancun, Mexico, for the principal purpose of addressing “the situation in Venezuela”.

(Reuters) – IBF, WBA and IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua says he is eager for a rematch with Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko after April’s thrilling bout but will face Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev if Klitschko decides to retire.

The Guyana Securities Council (GSC) is depending on a re-write of the 1998 Securities Industry Act and amendments to the Financial Institutions Act to allow it to better protect investors and provide tangible benefits to the domestic financial market.

Amid the bloodshed in Venezuela, the corruption scandal in Brazil and the stream of bizarre statements coming out of President Trump’s Twitter feed, a very important news item has gone almost unnoticed in Latin America: A new study says the region is failing miserably in innovation.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) – Haiti could stem its seven-year-long cholera epidemic by the end of 2018 as the number of reported cases has dropped sharply, government and United Nations officials said.

SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is challenging a gag order from a US court that is preventing the company from talking about three government search warrants that it said pose a threat to freedom of speech, according to court documents.

A man was on Friday granted bail after he denied being in possession of almost two pounds of cannabis.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Stan Wawrinka’s Wimble-don hopes were shredded in a blitz of heavy artillery fire as Russian Daniil Medvedev, making his Wimbledon debut, ousted the fifth seed in the first round with a stunning display of power hitting on Monday.

Dear Editor, A group of Guyanese Americans paid glowing tribute to the Enmore Martyrs last Sunday afternoon at the Liberty Palace in Richmond Hill, NYC.

Dear Editor, Please permit me to express my dissatisfaction on the infrastructural fragilities of New Amsterdam.

Hardly a day has passed over the last two years without there being some reference to oil and gas in the local media.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa captain Faf du Plessis will miss the first test against England at Lords starting on Thursday due to family reasons, the cricket board confirmed yesterday.

A man was on Friday remanded to prison by a city magistrate after he was read an attempted murder charge.

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Philip Hammond yesterday defended the country’s strict cap on public sector pay, which is a target of the opposition Labour Party and has been questioned by some senior members of the ruling Conservative Party.

By Sandile Hlatshwayo and Michael Spence Sandile Hlatshwayo recently received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and will join the International Monetary Fund in the fall.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is reviving a network of state-run “love motels” in Havana where couples can rent rooms by the hour as the communist government seeks to “diversify options for love,” the official trade union weekly Trabajadores said yesterday.