Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 5, 2017

(Trinidad Express) Police have charged Rayad Mohammed, the man who wrote a Facebook post directed at Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, his wife and daughter.

A gunman was fatally shot, while two of his accomplices were captured yesterday morning after their brazen attempt to rob the Republic Bank branch on Water Street, Georgetown, turned into a hair-raising shootout with guards and the police.

After managing to elude the police for almost eight months, US based-Guyanese, Marcus Brian Bisram, the alleged mastermind of the murder of Number 70 Village carpenter Faiyaz Narinedatt, was yesterday afternoon arrested in Queens, New York.

In the face of a changing international relations landscape President David Granger has called on his fellow heads of state to accelerate the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) in order to create a single economic space.

The European Union (EU) yesterday corrected figures it gave for support for the sugar industry over a seven-year period, saying it was $34.85 billion and not $348.5 billion as was “inadvertently” stated by its Ambassador, Jernej Videtič, last week.

The current flooding in the Rupununi is under control says Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock though many farms remain under water.

Two young men were yesterday charged with the fatal beating of Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara resident Kumar Persaud, known as ‘Radika,’ after he refused to leave a beach where the accused had been engaged in a threesome with a woman.

A governing coalition member, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), yesterday voiced its outrage at the rental of living quarters for Junior Minis-ter of Natural Resources Simona Broomes at a price tag of $500,000 and called for a review of the payment of mega rates for ministers.

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.

Three men are now remanded prisoners on the charge that they robbed a Chinese businessman of millions in cash and items.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Rookie seamer Kesrick Williams says he never once doubted his ability when skipper Jason Holder asked him to bowl the pivotal penultimate over of the fourth One-Day International against India last Sunday.

An armed robbery suspect was on Monday night accidentally stabbed by his accomplice during a raid on a shop owner at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara.

Guyanese Taylor Fernandes and Shomari Wilshire earned themselves individual titles at the conclusion of the singles leg of the 2017 Digicel junior Caribbean Squash Championships at the Georgetown Club, yesterday.

Government yesterday committed to tabling the Constitutional Reform and Consultative Bill, intended to advance the constitutional reform process, before the upcoming parliamentary recess in August.

A year after its opening, the rebranded Tower Suites is reporting an occupancy rate between 50 and 80 percent.

Dear Editor, The appointing of members to the Local Government Commission under the present construction of the law will open a new political battleground for the PPP/C and the government.

In a bid to ensure that the target of 40,000 tonnes of cane for the Uitvlugt Estate Improvement Programme [UEIP] is achieved by 2020, the estate is implementing new strategies, including the planting of “block cane.”

A city court yesterday denied bail to a policeman, who allegedly obtained $790,000 from a businessman by claiming he could get him a gun licence.

Dear Editor, Recent reports in the print and electronic media indicate that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) which has been doing an excellent job so far applied to the court for a warrant to search the home of the former Attorney General, Anil Nandlall for, among other things, 15 Commonwealth Law Reports.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic progressed to the second round at Wimbledon after their opponents retired early in their matches, leaving the Centre Court crowd disappointed yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is always a risk to try and simplify technical issues in a short article and it is clear from Desmond Thomas’s letter (‘Economists don’t typically…’ Sunday Stabroek, July 2) that I was not sufficiently clear in what I attempted to do in my article entitled ‘The current account balance, savings and foreign investment in Guyana’ published on June 25, 2017 in Sunday Stabroek .

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Head coach Vasbert Drakes says he is hoping that frank and honest discussions following West Indies Women’s embarrassing 10-wicket defeat to South Africa Women last Sunday can be the catalyst for a turn-around in the team’s abysmal form in the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s World Cup.

After a 19-year hiatus, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has reconvened the Transport Advisory Council in a bid to improve the operations of the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD).

Dear Editor, Guyanese joined with other Caricom nationals to observe Caricom Day which was observed on July 3.

The Rising Sun Turf Club’s one-day horse racing meet which  was to be held June 25  will now be held Sunday, organizer Compton Sancho told Stabroek Sports yesterday.

After enduring some four days being inundated, residents of Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara are finally able to experience a sense of relief, as the water has completely moved off of the land, as the three pumps at Strathavon, Mahaica are functioning again.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article entitled ‘The magnificent Serena Williams’ in the Saturday, July 1, 2017 edition of your newspaper.

LONDON, England, (Reuters) – The waiting ends for England’s new Test captain Joe Root on Thursday when he leads his side out for the start of a four-match series against South Africa at Lord’s nearly four months after his appointment.

Dear Editor, Sugar workers all over, but especially those once attached to the Wales Estate, are trapped in a bad place. 

Eighteen workers of the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) joined with the General Workers Union (GWU) outside the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday to protest over back pay and the loss of benefits on the job.

LONDON, (Reuters) – South Africa are backing Dean Elgar to bring a ‘gusty attitude’ with him when he stands in as captain for the first test against England, starting at Lords on Thursday.

Dear Editor, A young man was shot to death yesterday as he attempted to rob Republic Bank’s Water Street Branch.

Delmar Booker, who is accused of breaking into a school and stealing $1.5 million in computers and other items, was yesterday refused bail by a city court, which heard that he had similar charges pending against him.

LONDON, England, (Reuters) – South African Sean Dickson and Englishman Joe Denly shared a record 382-run partnership for Kent against Northamptonshire in the County Championship at Beckenham.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday its newly developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) can carry a large nuclear warhead, triggering a call by Washington for global action to hold it accountable for pursuing nuclear weapons.

The New Building Society (NBS) Limited, on Saturday opened its Corriverton Branch.

Investigations into the attempted robbery committed on Terrence Ramlochan, a Better Hope contractor who was shot over a month ago, remain active, Divisional Commander Calvin Brutus said yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana should waive VAT on private education with immediate effect.

Uitvlugt Secondary sealed their berth to the Region #3 semi-final round after edging Leonora Technical Institute (LTI) 2-0 in a physical affair yesterday in the seventh annual Digicel Schools Football Championships.

(Trinidad Express) Former prime minister Basdeo Panday believes that there is a deep racial divide in the country that is going to get worse and trigger a revolution.

Dear Editor, A letter in the name of Lincoln Lewis headlined ‘The deformities do not lie in the structure but in the refusal of persons to comply with the structure’ in your edition of July 3 caught my attention.

The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) on Friday announced the start of paddy shipments to Mexico.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – One of Bermuda’s leading former footballers, jailed for 11 years last month for a raft of historic sex offences against three young boys, has been found dead in his prison cell, police confirmed yesterday.

DOHA,  (Reuters) – Qatar announced plans for a steep rise in Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) production capacity yesterday that suggested it was ready for a protracted dispute with Gulf neighbours, but Doha said it was doing all it could to reach agreement.

In February, 1970, some members of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), a group based in London, England travelled to Guyana for ‘A Caribbean Writers and Artists Convention’, organized by the government as part of the country’s celebrations on becoming a republic.

(Trinidad Express) The mother arrested after a video  was posted on social media showing a woman abusing an infant boy, appeared in court on Tuesday.

A city magistrate yesterday remanded a man to prison after he was charged with two counts of robbery, including the theft of $2.1 million.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Media reports here say former West Indies coach Phil Simmons has applied for the hotly contested position of India head coach.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s ‘Das Capital’, and I was invited by the Guyana Peace Council, Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union and the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre to make a presentation, “How to translate Capital into meaning for one’s life” at a seminar held last Saturday at National Library in Georgetown.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s pro-government Supreme Court heard a petition yesterday to remove dissident state prosecutor Luisa Ortega, who was expecting the ax after alleging rights abuses and erosion of democracy under President Nicolas Maduro.