Daily Archive: Monday, July 24, 2017

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo this evening expressed concern over the escape of 13 prisoners from a Lusignan facility today.

Three shotgun bandits early this morning entered the home of a Corentyne family and carted off an undisclosed amount of cash and gold jewellery, during which the family of three fled their home by jumping off a shed, the police said today in a release.

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan  says that 13 prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan facility today did so by digging a tunnel into the backlands.

President David Granger and members of the National Security Committee (NSC) being briefed on the latest report of a prison break at the Lusignan Prison.

The authorities have released the names of the thirteen men who escaped from the Lusignan facility sometime today.

The prisons crisis besetting the government worsened today with news that prisoners have fled from the Lusignan compound where they were being held.

  WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said today that he “did not collude” with Russia and had roughly four meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition.

Fourteen days after a chilling breakout from the Camp Street jail which also saw its demolition by fire, four dangerous escapees remain on the run and the authorities appear clueless.

The Public Procurement Commission’s (PPC) investigation into the over $632M emergency drug purchase  by the GPHC has been completed and the report will be handed over to the National Assembly before it goes into recess on August 11th , 2017, PPC Chairman Carol Corbin says.

An 18-year-old Sophia man was hacked to death by a colleague after a confrontation over the former’s girlfriend.

A businessman is now nursing a gunshot wound at a private medical institution after he and his wife were attacked and robbed by armed bandits early Sunday morning at Success, East Coast Demerara.

A Corentyne rice farmer was yesterday placed under arrest at the Springlands  Police Station, after a report was filed alleging that the man on Friday night discharged a round from his shotgun at the house of a witness in the murder case of Number 70 carpenter, Faiyaz Narinedatt.

A fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed two living quarters located in the squatting district of Riverview, Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

A West Coast Demerara (WCD) jeweller was yesterday afternoon robbed at gun point of over $4 million in jewellery and $135,000 in cash while at his business establishment, which is located in the Hydronie, East Bank Essequibo market.

A sixteen-year-old pedestrian was killed in a  vehicular accident last night on the Parika Public Road and the driver of the vehicle is in custody assisting with investigations.

The owner of the $200 million, two-storey building which collapsed in Lethem, Region Nine on Wednesday last, maintains that the collapse was due to flooding in the area at the time and not the failure to ensure proper building codes were followed.

Tullow Guyana B.V.has commenced an approximately 2,550 km2 3D seismic survey on the Company’s Orinduik Block offshore Guyana.

Residents of Naamless and St. Lawrence on the East Bank of Essequibo have expressed disgust at the deplorable state of the access road within the stretch of the two villages, where vehicles being stuck are now a common sight.

Alex Arjoon retained his senior squash crown while world-rated player Nicolette Fernandes dethroned defending champion Ashley Khalil at the conclusion of the 2017 Digicel Senior National Squash Championships at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts Saturday evening.

People’s Progressive Party member and former Office of the President Press and Publicity Officer Kwame McCoy has been taken to the High Court by the Guyana Power and Light Company over $143,573 they claim he owes.

Melvor Jeffrey, who was allegedly shot by the police and then escaped from lawful custody while under guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) on Wednesday, was yesterday recaptured by the lawmen after he was found hiding in a barrel at Agricola, East Bank Demerara.

HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Bhaskar Yadram extended his fine of form with another half-century as West Indies Under-19s made a winning start to their three-match Youth One-Day International series against Zimbabwe Under-19s with a 39-run victory here yesterday.

Guyana’s national table tennis players are holding their own at the ongoing senior Caribbean Table Tennis Championships currently being played in Havana, Cuba after turning in several impressive performances.

The Guyana Sugar Corporation [GuySuCo] has produced a total of 49,606 tonnes of sugar for the first crop in 2017, out of a production target 74,172 that it had set.

The Ministry of Legal Affairs yesterday said it believes that the Guyana Bar Association’s (GBA) expectation that President David Granger will conform with the recent ruling by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire on the GECOM Chairman is premature as the applicant has signalled his intention to appeal.

Guyanese boxer, Keevin Allicock punched his way to a silver medal at the  Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas yesterday.

(Reuters) – Chris Froome picked up 500,000 euros ($582,900) yesterday as his prize for winning the Tour de France — a tidy sum but a relative pittance compared to the huge sums banked by the top names in other sports.

More than two dozen councillors from several indigenous villages in the Rupununi were recently able to benefit from a sensitisation workshop on legal and social issues.

(The Sports Xchange) – The horse racing world was turned upside-down when Arrogate, rated the top horse in the world and the all-time leading money winner among North American thoroughbreds, suffered one of the biggest upsets in thoroughbred history on Saturday at Del Mar, California.

A  man was on Friday refused bail after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawful wounding.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Waldir Peres, the much-maligned goalkeeper in Brazil’s 1982 World Cup side, died of a heart attack yesterday, his former club Sao Paulo said.

Four-time national champions Christianburg/Wismar Secondary crushed Region Eight’s Mahdia Secondary 5-0 when the Digicel Schools Football Championships National Playoffs commenced yesterday at the Mackenzie Sports Club (MSC) ground, Linden.

A man was on Friday sentenced to nine months in jail after he admitted to stealing $61,600 in cigarettes.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday that U.S. President Donald Trump was open to signing legislation toughening sanctions on Russia after Senate and House leaders reached agreement on a bill late last week.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Water Incorporated wishes to provide clarity to the situation captured in the Stabroek News photo captioned `Blankenburg water main’ on July 22, 2017.

Miners who were robbed last week at their camps in Kartuni, Cuyuni River by a gang of men, were able to retrieve some of the stolen vehicles and  items along the trail.

Sparta Boss will oppose Future Stars while Back Circle will engage West Front Road-Gold is Money in the semi-final round on Thursday following quarterfinal wins on Saturday in the ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Futsal Championships.

(Reuters) – Big-serving John Isner became the first man in a decade to go through an entire ATP tournament without facing a break point as he used his dominant serve to win the Hall of Fame Open in Rhode Island yesterday.

Property Holdings Incorporated (PHI) has advertised the former Guyana Stores Limited Shopping Centre in Festival City for sale or lease.

SAN ANTONIO,  (Reuters) – At least nine men were found dead yesterday alongside dozens of people discovered inside a sweltering tractor trailer parked at a Walmart store in San Antonio, Texas, in what authorities called a case of “ruthless” human trafficking.

Dear Editor, Do not be confused. We are writing here about sport: cricket, to be exact.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has added a lawyer with congressional experience to his legal team, the lawyer told Reuters yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Head of the Anglican Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, Bishop Howard Gregory, has broken ranks with many of his Christian brethren and urged the parliamentary committee examining the Sexual Offences Act and related laws to recommend the removal of the offence of buggery from the law books, widen the definition of rape, and recognise marital rape.

Dear Editor, I read with sadness and much disappointment, a letter by one Edwin Lynch, in last weekend’s edition of the CS, captioned, ‘Gay Rights’.

SOUTHPORT, England, (Reuters) – British Open champion Jordan Spieth was haunted by bad memories yesterday as he faced up to the possibility of throwing away another big lead in the final round of a major.

Two men who were positively identified by their victims, were each granted $15,000 bail on Friday.

HAVANA/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. tour operators that send Americans to Cuba are banding together to try to limit damage to business from tighter restrictions on travel to the communist-run island expected in September from the Trump administration.

(Trinidad Guardian) Whenever Marcia Ayers-Caesar is seen in public nowadays she is called names and disrespected.

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Two sublime goals from Neymar gave Barcelona a 2-1 win over Juventus in front of an 82,000 crowd at MetLife Stadium in the International Champions Cup on Saturday.

Dear Editor, I read with great pleasure the response of Debra Lewis, Public Relations Officer, M&CC to my recent letter to the editor in relation to the nightmare I encountered to get a refund of bail at City Hall.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – England won their fourth Women’s World Cup when Anya Shrubsole took six wickets to clinch a nine-run victory over India amid delirious scenes at a packed Lord’s yesterday.

Dear Editor, No proper historian can doubt that the most difficult economic years for the ordinary man in post-independent Guyana were during the last years of Forbes Burnham in the period 1984 to 1985.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A former state governor from Mexico’s ruling party will stand trial for engaging in organized crime and handling funds of illicit origin after a judge reviewing evidence approved the case, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Chris Froome put on a near-perfect performance to claim his fourth Tour de France and move within one title of cycling’s greatest yesterday as Team Sky tightened their grip on the classic race.

Dear Editor, This can be a creepy place that tightens the gut and heaves the stomach. 

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Dunkirk” and “Girls Trip” are opening above expectations at the domestic box office, while “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” looks like a huge flop.

BENGALURU, (Reuters) – An Indian musician who strummed a guitar during brain surgery to treat painful muscle spasms in his hand says he hopes to release his first album next year.

(Trinidad Express) The creditors of CL Financial (CLF) are calling in their debt.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – The Australian cricketers’ union has told players a pay deal may not be struck with the national board before the home “summer of cricket”, which includes the lucrative and highly anticipated Ashes series.

On July 18th, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley and the Opposition Leader and immediate past Prime Minister, Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar met at Parliament Building in Port-of-Spain for three hours.

By Ryan Benschop   Ryan Benschop is 17 years old, and is currently studying four subjects (Business, Economics, Law and Psychology) through the Cambridge International Advanced Level programme at Nations’ Sixth Form College.

Dear Editor, Just over a month ago while travelling overseas with a particular airline, I made some observations that the Ministries of Public Infrastructure, Business and Tourism, along with the Civil Aviation Authority, may find interesting and hopefully seek to address.

SAN DIEGO, (Reuters) – Canadian director Denis Villeneuve had fended off numerous requests to direct big-budget sequels until he was approached to make a follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 neo-noir sci-fi film “Blade Runner.”

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A small group of companies and individuals are looking to register racially charged words and symbols for their products, including the N-word and a swastika, based on a U.S.

The Board of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) investigated the circumstances surrounding the procurement of drugs and medical supplies early this year in the sum of $632 million.

Hint to Baneba? One of several billboards put up by the Central Housing and Planning Authority last month in squatting areas, warning that the activity is illegal.

Interviews and photos by Oliceia Tinnie and David Papannah Do you know who your constituency councillor is or who is in charge of your NDC or town council?