Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 12, 2017

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says CARICOM could proceed with a legal challenge to Cricket West Indies’ right to manage the sport in the Caribbean, in an unprecedented test of the body’s longstanding authority.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a top contender to win next year’s presidential election, was convicted on corruption charges today and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.

The police this afternoon released bulletins for two more escapees from the Camp Street prison on Sunday.

The police force is currently combing the backlands of Buxton, East Coast Demerara for escapees from Sunday’s prison revolt.

Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Karen Cummings (right) and Director of Prisons (ag), Gladwyn Samuels today visited Hubert Trim, a Prison Warden injured during Sunday’s revolt at the  Camp Street Prison.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today defended his eldest son as “innocent” following emails that showed Donald Trump Jr.

-masterminds seized revolver from warder The number of Camp Street Prison inmates unaccounted for after Sunday’s breakout stands at eight, according to Director of Prisons Gladwyn Samuels, who also said yesterday that the four masterminds took a service revolver from a warder.

A Route 32 minibus driver was fatally shot around midday yesterday on the McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara after he attempted to drive away from bandits who robbed several passengers onboard his bus. 

If you are a fan of exhilarating, world class Track and Field action, then the place to be on Saturday is the National Track and Field Centre to witness live the second staging of the Aliann Pompey Invitational.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has warned that West Indies could face relegation from the top tier of international cricket if the regional game continues in its current state of crisis.

Taxi driver Matthew Shivtahal, who says he was abducted by four of the men who broke out of the Camp Street jail on Sunday, yesterday credited his one-year-old son as the reason why the men spared his life.

President David Granger yesterday said that his administration does not intend to rebuild a full scale prison facility at the site of the former Georgetown Prison on Camp Street, the Ministry of the Presidency said last evening.

Santos hammered Pele FC 4-0 when the inaugural Corona Beer Invitational Football Championship commenced Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

New Amsterdam (NA) United and Monedderlust Football Club secured wins over Corriverton Links and Mahaicony Thunderhawks respectively when the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) National U17 League continued on Sunday.

While lauding the performance of the security forces during Sunday’s revolt at the Camp Street prison, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday flayed the government for not doing enough to act on the recommendations made after last year’s inquiry into a similar insurrection and called for more information to be made public.

Three-time golf champion Imran Khan, of Courbane Park, Annandale, passed away on Monday evening, mere hours after being diagnosed with the bacterial infection, leptospirosis.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies head coach Stuart Law wants to see Evin Lewis transfer his Twenty20 form and aggressive approach into the one-day format, after watching the opener’s scintillating hundred against India last Sunday.

Dear Editor, On July 9, 2017, we experienced the worst jailbreak and destruction of the jail in our history.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – The mercurial Deandra Dottin stroked an aggressive maiden one-day hundred as West Indies Women produced their best performance of an otherwise disappointing campaign, with a 19-run win over Pakistan Women in the ICC Women’s World Cup here yesterday.

One of the accused in the murder of businessman Rajendra Singh, who was killed after being kidnapped in 2014, was yesterday discharged after the prosecution failed to prove a case against him.

Dear Editor, This year the Caribbean Community is rising to celebrate the centennial of the defeat of post-slavery Indentured Servitude and the final Emancipation of the Indian community from labour bondage.

Retired Assistant Com-missioner of Police, Paul Slowe was yesterday sworn in to lead the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into an alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger and the police force’s handling of the investigation.

Dear Editor, On Saturday, July 1, 2017, I had to visit the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri to pick up my wife who was returning from overseas at 15:00 hrs.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Shai Hope’s good form in the recent one-day series against India has seen him make a considerable leap in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings released yesterday.

Dear Editor, Have the authorities been aware of the goings-on in the prisons in Guyana over the past 15 months?

Relatives of inmates relocated to the Lusignan Prison after Sunday’s Camp Street jail fire yesterday bemoaned what they said was the slothfulness of the prisons authority in providing them with information.

BERGERAC, France, (Reuters) – German Marcel Kittel claimed his fourth victory in this year’s Tour de France when he powered to an impressive Stage 10 win in a bunch sprint yesterday as Briton Chris Froome retained the overall lead.

Residents on the Essequibo Coast are frustrated due to frequent power outages that they have been experiencing daily.

Dear Editor, Let me be clear that what prompted me to write my comments (SN July 2) on Mr Rawle Lucas’s balance-of-payments (BOP) analysis was not to dispute his theoretical correctness, but concerns about policy questions which his analysis raised in my mind.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Johanna Konta became the first British woman to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon in more than 40 years yesterday when she beat Romanian Simona Halep 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 6-4 in a tension-filled match on Centre Court.

The 200 acres of seed paddy that was cultivated at Wales estate, as part of the diversification venture following the closure of sugar operations in December 2016, would be ready for harvesting in September.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – World athletics chief Sebastian Coe said yesterday the recent leakage of athletes’ personal medical information by hackers group Fancy Bears, which also appeared to link elite Kenyan athletes to doping, was unacceptable.

Dear Editor, With regard to the recent prison fire catastrophe, most people are stifling their consciences because of political slants, or sheer stupidity. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s eldest son eagerly agreed last year to meet a woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow’s official support for his father, according to emails released yesterday.

Dear Editor, The June 9 Camp Street prison conflagration that pretty much destroyed this complex continues to spawn myriad news angles to help readers capture the whole emerging picture of what happened, why it happened and what jittery citizens can expect in the form of public safety going forward.

Two billion-dollar bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for the acquisition of emergency pharmaceutical supplies for Regional Health Services under the Ministry of Public Health.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Angelo Mathews has stepped down as Sri Lanka’s captain, local media reported yesterday, a day after the 30-year-old described the one-day series loss to Zimbabwe as one of the lowest points in his career.

Dear Editor, There are times, rare times, in the affairs of men when a disaster deserves a cheer.

Poor preparation by officials of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs on Monday saw the deferral of a scheduled hearing before the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for the second time in the space of a month.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Mo Farah will defend his 5,000 and 10,000 metres world titles on home soil next month after being named yesterday in Britain’s team for the world athletics championships.

CAIRO/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters yesterday it had “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The speaker of the lower house of Brazil’s Congress yesterday urged that a vote be held this week on a corruption charge facing President Michel Temer.

The 15-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed an Upper Corentyne hire car driver in his neck killing him, was on Monday refused bail.

Dear Editor, First, I offer my sincere condolences to the grieving family of the deceased prison officer.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was fighting for his political future yesterday after judicial investigators ruled his family had accumulated unusual wealth, with his allies denouncing the findings and vowing he would clear his name.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Afghanistan were given a traditional British welcome as their first-ever appearance at Lord’s was cut short by rain in a one-day match against a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) XI yesterday.

Dear Editor Your editorial in yesterday’s edition on the garbage crisis was pointed and made reference to the many elements of this vicious cycle that ever so often repeats itself.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is moving to improve its database management software system in order to improve its efficiency, according to Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia, who on Monday reported that it would be only a matter of time before the agency moves from the Total Revenue Integrated Processing Systems (TRIPS).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has ordered an audit of the cell phone bills of government ministers and state ministers following a Television Jamaica (TVJ) revelation that in one year, Finance Minister Audley Shaw has racked up more than $8 million in charges.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Former all-rounder Ravi Shastri has been appointed India coach until the 2019 World Cup, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said in a statement yesterday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Ships carrying Chinese military personnel for Beijing’s first overseas military base, in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, have left China to begin setting up the facility, state news agency Xinhua has reported.

Dear Editor, Corruption kills.  It also wounds and burns and menaces. 

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis made one of the most significant changes in centuries to the Roman Catholic Church’s saint-making procedures on Tuesday, adding a new category for people who give their lives to save others.

In view of the accepted  importance of eduation, some of what has taken place during and in the aftermath of the removal of Dr.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – Former test bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe has been banned for eight years, taking to seven the number of South African players kicked out of the game for their part in a 2015 match-fixing scandal, CricketSouth Africa said yesterday.

The thirty-eighth regular meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) was held last week Tuesday to Thursday (July 4-6) in Grand Anse, Grenada.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans are set to lose more of their favourite cable channels as the Broadcasting Commission plans to direct local cable licensees to remove additional unauthorised stations from their subscriber packages.

A man was yesterday fined and ordered to perform two months of community service for cultivating cannabis.