Daily Archive: Wednesday, August 9, 2017

A reward of $10 Million is being offered by the Guyana Police Force for information leading to the arrest of the remaining four prison escapees, Cobena Stephens, Paul Goriah, Uree Varswyck and Mark Royden Durant..

At 11:30 am today, the prime suspect in relation to the murder of Parbattie Lakhpal which occurred at East Canje, Berbice on July 29, 2017, was arrested at Springlands, Corriverton, Berbice, the police said..

  Having already made major finds, ExxonMobil is set for a new round of offshore exploration beginning on August 14.

(Trinidad Guardian) As Chinese businesses continue to be targeted, police say one of the barriers to catching the culprits is that they are not getting certain information.

The Caricom Cement Factory, which has its headquarters at Everton Village, East Bank Berbice, is expected to begin the production of cement in two months and it is planning to supplement its workforce with sugar workers seeking new employment once the Rose Hall Estate is closed.

Booted by the city for demanding over $300m due to them, long-serving garbage contractors Cevons Waste Management and Puran Brothers have pleaded their case with President David Granger and the Private Sector Commission.

Another man has succumbed following Sunday afternoon’s accident on the Catherine, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD), Public Road, taking the death toll to two.

An investigation has been launched by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) into a plane crash at the Eteringbang airstrip, Region Seven (Cuyuni/ Mazaruni) that left one pilot injured yesterday.

A youth and his sister, of Number 51 Village, Corentyne, were yesterday remanded to prison for trafficking almost 25 pounds of marijuana, which police recovered on Saturday.

Two Chinese nationals were yesterday afternoon beaten and robbed of over $250,000 in cash and valuables when armed bandits carried out a brazen daylight robbery at a Good Hope, East Coast Demerara supermarket.

On the instructions of  Town Clerk Royston King and City Engineer Colvern Venture, municipal workers last night removed several food stalls from Camp Street within the vicinity of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Headquarters and the St Margaret’s Primary School.

The family of Charles Peters, the Melanie Damishana labourer who was fatally shot by the police two weeks ago, says it is being kept in the dark about the investigation.

The trial of former General Manager of the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) Nizam Hassan, who is accused of approving payments for substandard work on the company’s headquarters, continued yesterday with the testimony of two more witnesses, including a former executive assistant.

Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has voiced dissatisfaction with the number of sittings of the National Assembly since the APNU+AFC government took office in 2015, saying that the government’s legislative agenda has proven to be “extraordinarily thin,” while her party is being bullied with regards to its rights.

Karamchand Parbhudyal, the Crabwood Creek labourer who went missing during a fishing trip last Saturday, was found dead in the Corentyne River between the Number 73 Village and Number 74 Village yesterday morning.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Left-arm spinner Ashmead Nedd routed Windward Islands with a magnificent seven-wicket haul to propel Guyana to an innings and 58-run victory over Windward Islands on the final day of their fourth round match in the Regional Under-19 Championship here Tuesday.

Laurent McGarrell, the Golden Grove man charged with causing the death of his common-law wife, who died after they fell from a motorbike along the East Bank of Demerara public road, was yesterday fined a total of $75,000 after he pleaded guilty to four traffic offences.

TORONTO, Canada – SVC Mafia and New York Hustlers emerged winners of Sunday’s Toronto Cup 2 Open and Masters tournaments respectively which ended at the University of Toronto ground.

The body of 19-year-old Esther Weekes was yesterday pulled out of the Demerara River, two days after she went under the water while trying to help a relative who fell in.

The Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday singed the government over an instruction to the Police Service Commission not to consider promotions for members of the Guyana Police Force.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Wayde van Niekerk retained his world 400 metres title in dominant fashion yesterday as he stormed to victory in 43.98 seconds but there was almost as much interest in the empty lane alongside him where Botswana’s Isaac Makwala should have been.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Botswana’s Isaac Makwala was refused entry to the London Stadium yesterday after earlier being withdrawn from the night’s 400 metres final at the World Championships after falling victim to an outbreak of sickness that has hit scores of competitors.

Opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) parliamentarians on Saturday defended their former government’s controversial granting of broadcast licences, while accusing the current government of stretching the truth in levelling charges of nepotism.

Dear Editor, As one of the principal contributors to the shaping of the Broadcasting Amendment Bill (BAB) of 2017 I think it is necessary that I add my voice in an effort to proffer added context to the current debate surrounding its recent passage.

Dear Editor, I apologise unequivocally for implicating Mr Yarde in the presentation made by the Vice-President of the GPSU, which I observed through my obviously blinkered vision of the TV programme.

(Reuters) – Tiger Woods’s decade-long grip on golf curtailed the ambitions of many of the top players in his generation, but Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els have more reason than most to feel aggrieved.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) will be launching an investigation into a report of stray animals traversing the runway at the Lethem Airstrip in Region Nine.

Head coach of the Guyana U17 girls team Akeila Castello, said yesterday that the expectation was for the team to be very competitive when they face off with Barbados today in CONCACAF U17 Qualifying Championships at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr E B John’s letter to SN, of August 3, titled ‘Letter was full of assumptions’.

Dear Editor, With the passing of the controversial Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill it seems as if the government, any government, would get to broadcast propaganda to the Guyanese people for free in the private media on a daily basis.

LONDON, CMC – Bahamian Steven Gardiner won silver in the men’s 400m to hand the Caribbean its only medal on day five of the IAAF World Championships here Tuesday.

The Ministry of Public Security yesterday said that the waiver on the impounding of stray animals has ended.

CANTERBURY, England, CMC – Rookie left-hander Shimron Hetmyer shone but opener Kraigg Brathwaite suffered his third straight failure as the three-day tour game against Kent finished in a draw here yesterday.

Dear Editor, I wish to reply to a letter written by Mr Anthony A Haynes published in the Stabroek News on August 4 captioned, ‘There will be minimum maintenance for next two decades when work on Agriculture Road is finished’. 

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) has announced its support for the controversial  Constituent Assembly elected last week in Venezuela under the Presidency of Nicolas Maduro.

Dear Editor, The damage done to GTT’s fibre optic cable is reprehensible and the public rejects it.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Pakistani Shadab Khan grabbed Man-of-the-Match honours for the second straight game as Trinbago Knight Riders beat St Lucia Stars for the second time in four days in the Caribbean Premier League here Monday night.

Dear Editor, This is a special appeal to the management of the National Communications Network Inc (NCN) in Guyana relating to one of their most popular and longest running musical programmes in recent times: the Basil Persaud Special ( the Basil ‘P’ Show).

Despite the presence of Caribbean heavyweights Cuba in group-D of the CONCACAF U17 Girls Championships, Thomas Jordan, head coach of the Barbados U17 Girls Team, said his charges are equipped to compete.

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) for food supplies to the prison system among other contracts.

N.J., (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it is considering plans for a missile strike on the U.S.

A North Ruimveldt man was yesterday faced with seven counts of armed robbery and remanded to prison following last week’s robbery at the E-Networks’ Cornelia Ida branch office.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica have withdrawn from the Senior Caribbean Netball Championships scheduled for St Lucia later this month, amidst concerns their participation will hurt their international ranking.

Two armed bandits on Monday evening stormed a North Ruimveldt bakery, where they held a sales assistant at gunpoint before fleeing with the proprietor’s vehicle.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru called the government of Venezuela a “dictatorship” yesterday after hosting the first meeting of a new, 17-member regional bloc that aims to seek a peaceful end to the country’s deepening political crisis.

Junior table tennis sensation Kaysan Ninvalle who captured the 2016 Caribbean boys under-11 singles title at is confident of winning another title at this year’s pre and mini-cadet tournament in Jamaica.

Dear Editor,   Letter writer Sean Ori wrote succinctly in yesterday’s SN: “It is all about value for money.

Last Saturday, 5th August, at 21:45 GMT, eight men stepped to the line for the 100 metres final at the IAAF World Championships being held in London, England.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will rest spin spearhead Rangana Herath for the inconsequential third and final test against India in Pallekele, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP/C’s pontifications about the need for a free and open media must have elicited if not the vast hilarity coming from his detractors at the very least a timid smile from even his ardent supporters. 

Dear Editor, With Carifesta a mere week or so away, and with Barbados and most of the Caribbean enmeshed in social and governmental dysfunction and crisis, the fundamental question that arises is as follows:- Will we use Carifesta to launch a powerful cultural and artistic campaign to regenerate our Barbadian and wider Caribbean nation, or will we squander this priceless opportunity that has come our way?

(Reuters) – Singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, the “Rhinestone Cowboy” who went on a farewell tour to play hits such as “Wichita Lineman” and “Gentle on My Mind” before Alzheimer’s disease robbed him of talents, died yesterday at the age of 81.

The Guyana leg of the Queen’s Baton Relay officially kicked off yesterday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma survived an attempt in parliament to force him from office yesterday, but was left politically wounded after some members of his ruling African National Congress (ANC) party voted with the opposition.