Articles published on Saturday, July 8, 2017
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s best-known jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez celebrated a surprise return to his family after being granted house arrest on Saturday with a promise to fight on following three years’ imprisonment for leading anti-government protests.
JUNIOR RANKS PROMOTION On the occasion of the Guyana Police Force 178th Anniversary the undermentioned promotions to the rank of Corporal to Sergeant, Lance Corporal and Constable to Corporal and Constable to Lance Corporal have been approved by the Commissioner of Police with effect from July 08, 2017.
The Loft Night Club in Alberttown has closed and a number of items are up for sale.
A new magisterial district is to be constituted for the Upper Demerara.
(Trinidad Guardian) Eight years after the Clico collapse, shareholders in Barbados, St Vincent and Grenada are now calling on the T&T Government to bail them out of the debacle.
A policeman attached to ‘A’ Division and a rural constable, who were said to have been active participants in Tuesday’s attempted robbery of the Republic Bank branch at Water Street, Georgetown, which left one of the bandits dead, were arrested on Thursday night, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.
With heavy rainfall forecast for northern Brazil over the weekend, the head of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Retired Colonel Chabilall Ramsarup yesterday warned that flood affected residents of Region Nine (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) would have to prepare for the worst.
The National Assembly approved $6.395 billion in supplementary spending for the year.
Puran Brothers Disposal Inc and Cevons Waste Management have withdrawn their garbage collection services from Georgetown due to the failure of the cash-strapped Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to meet its financial commitments to the two companies, which are owed in excess of $300 million.
Speaker of the National Assembly Dr. Barton Scotland yesterday censured Members of Parliament for unbecoming behaviour.
As its cash flow issues continue, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) decided at a financial meeting on Thursday to start selling properties that are heavily in arrears on rates.
Efforts are currently underway to drain flooded cattle grazing grounds in Black Bush Polder in Region Six but Agriculture Minister Noel Holder says this could pose problems for rice lands located in the area.
After being without power for nearly two months, residents of Mabaruma are now breathing a sigh of relief as their electricity supply was finally restored on Thursday evening.
A special purpose unit has been established in the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) to spearhead the divestment/privatisation of certain assets of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).
In an effort to alleviate the problems faced by miners traversing several hinterland roads, Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson yesterday said that weight restriction systems are currently being put in place.
The penultimate day of the 2017 Junior Caribbean Squash Championship bore the resemblance to that of a battlefield with the Caribbean juniors looking battered and bruised whilst wielding their rackets relentlessly in the name of nationhood.
The National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) did not grant approval for the single sourcing of nearly $632 million in emergency drug purchases for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday made clear.
Five Haitian youths were injured early yesterday morning after a hire car they were travelling in collided with a donkey along the Number 53 Village Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.
– Match between Berbice and President’s XI abandoned Demerara’s female Under – 19 cricket team yesterday defeated Essequibo by 95 runs in the opening match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) female Under-19 tournament at the Everest Cricket Club ground, Camp Road.
Floodlights softball cricket team exacted a measure of revenge when they defeated Regal Masters to win the New York Softball Cricket League tournament held June 30-July 2 in the United States of America.
The US$80 million payment made by Norway to Guyana for forest services, being held by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), is not enough to fund a hydropower project here and lending institutions are not as willing to finance such projects, Finance Minister Winston Jordan says.
NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES, France, (Reuters) – The seventh stage of the Tour de France burst into life at the finish yesterday as Marcel Kittel claimed his third victory in this year’s edition, pipping Edvald Boasson Hagen to the line in the final sprint.
As the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) Secondary School at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara, continues to produce outstanding academic performances, two more of its students have been awarded scholarships to study in the United States.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Captain Jason Holder says West Indies need to find solutions to their batting woes by the time the next one-day series rolls around against England in September.
Eaion Kwesi Kaman Le Black, who tried to board a plane to Barbados after swallowing 71 cocaine pellets, will be spending the next four years in jail.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Defending champion Andy Murray and two-time winner Rafael Nadal booked their places in the fourth round at Wimbledon yesterday.
Dear Editor, Within recent days there has been quite a bit of media publicity through GuySuCo’s Community Outreach Programme on the Uitvlugt Estate Improvement Programme (UEIP).
A farmer was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail by a city court after he pleaded guilty to stealing almost $1 million in goods during a break-in.
Ten athletes will represent Guyana in boxing, judo, swimming and track and field at the Commonwealth Youth Games scheduled for July 18-23 in The Bahamas.
Dear Editor, The ghost of corruption has once again returned to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).
Johnny Welshman, who was charged in 2015 with falsely obtaining $40,000 from a woman after pretending to be a lawyer, was yesterday found guilty of the crime and fined.
Dear Editor, I think Minister Broomes is missing the essential point.
Fitness fans mark your calendars, the flagship ‘Mr. Guyana’ event of the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation Inc.
HAMBURG (Reuters) – In a meeting that ran longer than either side had planned, US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed alleged Russian meddling in the US election yesterday but agreed to focus on better ties rather than litigating the past.
Dear Editor, It appears that in Guyana there are first and second class citizens.
CARACAS (Reuters) – With many Venezuelans angry at the government and planning to sit out a July 30 vote for a new superbody assembly, President Nicolas Maduro has ordered all state workers to take part, seeking to avoid an embarrassingly low turnout.
The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) will be staging an Olympic Day Development Meet today from 15:00hrs.
A Guyanese man was fatally shot during a fishing trip in the Florida Everglades on Wednesday, when he was the suspected victim of an accidental shooting.
Under the directorship of Missosology Guyana (an organisation that says it is committed to pageantry in Guyana and its diaspora) the gorgeous Divya Yabindranauth was chosen to represent Guyana at the Miss United Continents in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Hi Everyone, This is the third and final part of our heat series on hot peppers.
HAMBURG (Reuters) – The United States, Russia and Jordan have reached a ceasefire and “de-escalation agreement” in southwestern Syria, one of the combat zones in a six-year-old civil war, Washington and Moscow said yesterday.
Dear Editor, People’s rights and the rule of law are not footballs for politicians to be kicking around, and it is for this reason I shall stay the course in the debate on the Guyana Constitution to make sure people respect this instrument, and do what is right by enacting laws to make real the structures that are currently in place.
Sparta Boss, Broad Street, North Ruimveldt and Showstoppers advanced to the next round when the ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championship commenced Thursday.
The Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) yesterday launched its redesigned website to expand knowledge on the fight against HIV and AIDS in the region.
A woman’s connection with her undergarments is a unique one, and this is especially so in the case of many Guyanese women.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Residents in Brazil’s Amazon region yesterday blocked a key way for the transport of Brazilian grains to northern ports in a protest over increased protections for the rainforest, grains industry groups said yesterday.
I remember reading Roger Ebert’s review of Midnight Cowboy for a class on American film.
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves has again questioned the authority of Cricket West Indies to run the regional game, especially since the organisation has claimed to be a private entity.
The Ministry of Public Security has established an Inter-Agency Task Force to combat noise nuisance.
Dear Editor, On July 6th, UK based security expert, Dr Perry Stanislas, addressed a symposium here in Guyana, examining the link between oil and corruption.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to carry out a new test of its THAAD missile defense system against an intermediate-range ballistic missile in the coming days, two US officials told Reuters yesterday, as tensions with North Korea climb.
The suspect in last Friday’s fatal stabbing of Guyhoc Park resident Sheldon Braithwaite at Water Street, Stabroek, Georgetown, remains hospitalised in a serious condition.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico and the United States are seeking to forge closer ties to fight arms trafficking and organized crime, Mexico’s interior minister said yesterday, as he and US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly vowed to redouble efforts to battle drug cartels.
Dear Editor, In my missive ‘Enmore Martyrs Remembered in NY’ I penned that “Dr Jagan led” the funeral procession from Enmore to Le Repentir.
Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Managing Director Dr. Richard Van West-Charles (at centre), GWI technical officials and Councillors of Albouystown inspected sewage chambers that need replacement in the community yesterday.
Selfless, Heroic and Eternal is SHE. Creator, Mother, Queen, Motivator, Homemaker, Career Woman – SHE is everything under the sun.
The Miss Renaissance Pageant is here again and it’s time for Melissa Dow-Richardson, who won in 2015 to give up the crown.
TAUNTON, England, CMC – Veteran West Indies Women batsman Merissa Aguilleira says she is at a loss to explain the side’s wretched form in the ongoing ICC Women’s World Cup.
Last week, with his habitual lack of concern, President Trump tweeted a link to an Internet meme which remixed footage of him at a WrestleMania event so that he appeared to body-slam someone with a CNN logo superimposed on their head.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Congressional support for Brazilian President Michel Temer is weakening, lawmakers said yesterday, days before the lower house is expected to vote on whether he should stand trial on a corruption charge.
