Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 5, 2017

  (ESPN) St Kitts and Nevis Patriots are one step away from completing a remarkable worst-to-first turnaround after defeating Trinbago Knight Riders by 38 last night at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is advising that a number of flights have been cancelled due to Hurricane Irma.

Sherwin Roberts a/k “Big Head”, 20 years, unemployed of 68 ‘A’ Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was today charged with the murder of his niece 18-month-old Ronasha Pilgrim at 98 North Sophia on September 01, 2017.

At approximately 8.30hrs this morning, a transformer trip at the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Kingston power station caused the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) to experience a shutdown.

RIO DE JANEIRO/PARIS,  (Reuters) – Police raided the home of Brazil’s Olympics chief Carlos Arthur Nuzman today, accusing him of brokering a deal to bribe International Olympic Committee members to bring the 2016 Games to Rio de Janeiro with the backing of the former state governor.

(Trinidad Guardian) Barbados Trident’s captain Kieron Pollard has come under fire from some quarters for what they term ‘unsportsmanlike’ behaviour, by denying a century to Patriots opener Evin Lewis in their 2017 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) clash in Barbados on Sunday night.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Irma strengthened into a highly dangerous Category 5 storm today as it barreled toward the Caribbean and the southern United States, even as Texas and Louisiana still reeled from devastating Hurricane Harvey.

LONDON, CMC – All-rounder Ben Stokes has been rested for the solitary Twenty20 International against West Indies later this month, scuppering the anticipated renewed rivalry with West Indies star Carlos Brathwaite.

Murder accused Uree Varswyk, the Camp Street prison escapee who was shot dead during a confrontation with joint services ranks last Thursday, used the training he acquired as a former police officer to help Bartica massacre convict Mark Royden Williams escape, according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken.

The Customs and Excise Department of St Lucia has started the legal process to dispose of a Guyana-registered vessel, which was seized following the discovery of a large quantity of drugs and weapons aboard in 2011.

A 61-year-old Leopold Street man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempting to take narcotics into the Camp Street Prison.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Opener Evin Lewis stroked the fastest half-century of this year’s Caribbean Premier League but missed out on three figures in controversial circumstances as St Kitts and Nevis Patriots crushed Barbados Tridents by 10 wickets, in the final preliminary game here Sunday night.

Expressions of Interest (EoI) are being invited by the power company for three solar PV farms on the West Coast Berbice (WCB), East Bank Demerara (EBD) and Essequibo Coast.

(BBC) West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has warned England’s Ben Stokes to “stay on the boundary” in the limited-overs matches this month.

The Guyana Prison Service yesterday said that efforts are being made to allow family members and friends to communicate with prisoners legally as following the July 9, 2017 jail break at the Georgetown Prison, legal forms of communication were disrupted.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Star India will pay a staggering 163.48 billion rupees ($2.55 billion) for the television and digital rights of the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the next five years, the country’s cricket board announced yesterday.

LONDON, CMC  – Veteran stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has praised the West Indies side for the dramatic comeback in the ongoing Test series against England and has also defended them against unfair criticism from pundits in the media.

(Reuters) – Captain Mushfiqur Rahim and Sabbir Rahman shared a century stand to help Bangladesh fight back from Nathan Lyon’s five-wicket haul and lead the hosts to 253 for six on the opening day of the second and final test against Australia yesterday.

Dear Editor, Here’s what NBC News had to say about the terrible devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey: “…[A] consequence of all the growth in Harris County [Texas] is more concrete…All that development and pavement has led to less exposed ground, meaning the area was less able to absorb the tremendous amount of rain it received this past week.”

In keeping with recent recommendations made by UK security expert Lt.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – An ailing Juan Martin Del Potro came back from the brink of defeat to beat Austrian sixth seed Dominic Thiem 1-6 2-6 6-1 7-6(1) 6-4 and reach the last eight in Flushing Meadows yesterday.

Although the new school term commenced yesterday, the recreational field of Queen’s College still remains in a deplorable state, although provisions have been made to restore it.

Dear Editor, The storms and the obvious tornado that hit Madewini were ‘spawned’ by Hurricane Irma presently whirling away in the Atlantic and heading for the Caribbean: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goe

Dear Editor, Less than a week after foreign ministers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Guyana, Mexico and Peru had met in Lima, the capital of Peru where they condemned the “breakdown of democratic order” in Venezuela and declared that they would not recognize any action taken by its “illegitimate” new Constituent Assembly, President Donald Trump remarked on TV that he was “not ruling out a military option” in respect of US involvement in Venezuela.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Twice Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will battle seven-time grand slam title holder Venus Williams in a mouth-watering quarter-final to kick off the night session on center court at the U.S.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday declared its support for the Lands Commission of Inquiry (CoI), charging that 23 years of PPP/C rule had seen the country retrogressing on the “burning issue of land rights and justice”.

With their quarterfinal berths hanging by the proverbial thread Sparta Boss, Tiger Bay, West Front Road-Gold is Money, Leopold Street and Champion Boys, face must win group encounters tonight in the inaugural Guinness ‘Cage Football Championship’ at the National Gymnasium.

Dear Editor, Over the last several months ago I have found myself reflecting on and writing about the dangerous road our economy is taking and how the Granger regime has misclassified its priorities. 

The efforts by the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs to ensure greater participation by Indi-genous persons at this year’s Heritage Month Exhibition has left one long-time vendor questioning the purpose of the government’s social cohesion programme.

SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States accused North Korea’s trading partners yesterday of aiding its nuclear ambitions and said Pyongyang was “begging for war” after the North’s powerful nuclear test on Sunday and signs that further missile launches were on the way.

Dear Editor, I have serious concerns about the regulation of traffic at the Demerara Harbour Bridge.

The Guyana Prison Service (GPS) has received over 40 applications following a call for retired senior non-commissioned officers to help boost the prison system’s strength and interviews may start as early as tomorrow, according to acting Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels.

XIAMEN, China,  (Reuters) – China will give $80 million in funding for BRICS cooperation plans, Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday, while the bloc of five emerging countries pledged to oppose protectionism.

The list of sponsors to support the inaugural Guinness ‘Cage Football Championship’, continues to grow after Jai Signs and Auto Designs made a financial contribution to tournament coordinators Three Peat Promotions on Saturday.

When the new school term commenced yesterday, Manchester Secondary School teachers were left with no choice but to house students in laboratories after a Berbice contractor was unable to complete the necessary rehabilitation works over the holiday period.

Dear Editor, Sports remain an integral element in boosting the fitness, morale and confidence of a wide cross-section of Essequibians.

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) whipped Riddim Squad 5-2 to seal their semi-final berth when the Corona Beer Invitational Football tournament continued Sunday at the GFC ground, Bourda.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s top court opened the way yesterday for an investigation of President Jimmy Morales for alleged illegal campaign finances, but Congress will have the final say on removing his presidential immunity and could yet block the probe.

HONG KONG/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – China Merchants Port Holdings Co Ltd agreed to buy 90 percent of TCP Participações SA, Brazil’s most profitable port terminal, for about 2.9 billion reais ($924 million), a sign of growing interest in assets across Latin America’s No.

Two construction workers are now hospitalised after they fell off of the building they were working on at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara on Sunday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Variety.com) – A disastrous domestic summer box office is ending on a low note.

An argument about the chopping down of plants landed a construction worker before a city court on a charge that he attempted to chop a man with a cutlass.

Eagles outlasted Pacesetters 79-71 in their second-division clash when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) league tournament continued Sunday at the Burnham Court on Carmichael and Middle Streets.

Dear Editor, Oil was discovered in Guyana in 2015. It is expected to start flowing in 2020.

A fisherman was yesterday charged with allegedly stealing from a woman who got stuck in a traffic jam.

 (CPL) The lineup for finals week of the 2017 Hero Caribbean Premier League has been settled following the victory by the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots over the Barbados Tridents in the final group match of the season Sunday night.

VENICE,  (Reuters) – Music video “Thriller” was not the product of a brilliant idea but was made because pop star Michael Jackson wanted to be a monster, director John Landis said at the Venice film festival on Monday.

The police are in the process of wrapping up a report in relation to last month’s discovery of an illegal airstrip and aircraft close to the Santa Fe farm, Region Nine and it is suspected that two foreign nationals, a Colombian and a Brazilian are connected to the find.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Irma, barreling towards the Caribbean and the southern United States, was upgraded to a powerful Category 4 storm yesterday as islands in its path braced themselves.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday announced a massive national firearm recovery reward programme as well as a five-day grace period for illegal weapons found on premises in the Mount Salem community, which was last Friday declared Jamaica’s first zone of special operations (ZOSO).

Dear Editor, I wish to seek clarity from the relevant authority responsible for the Better Hope/LBI Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) once more.

The storm on Sunday in the vicinity of the Splashmins Resort on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway resulted in the dislocation of seven poles belonging to the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), partially due to uprooted trees falling on the line.

BOGOTA  (Reuters) – Colombia and the Marxist ELN rebel group said yesterday they agreed a temporary ceasefire that would run through mid-January 2018, but it would not be in effect when Pope Francis arrives in the Andean country for a visit later this week.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Texas yesterday edged toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey as shipping channels, oil pipelines and refineries restarted some operations and authorities lifted an evacuation order for the area around a once-burning chemical plant.

Dear Editor, In law enforcement, the only real power comes from the strength of the system. 

VENICE,  (Reuters) – Jane Fonda wishes the sex scene in her new movie with Robert Redford lasted longer, the 79-year-old American actress said as their latest screen collaboration “Our Souls at Night” premiered at the Venice film festival on Friday.

Undefeated West Demerara Football Association (WDFA) and the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) clinched semi-final berths in the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA)/GT Beer Intra-Association tournament Sunday.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-led congress leaders met yesterday with French President Emmanuel Macron to press for humanitarian aid to their crisis-hit nation, on the first leg of a European tour seeking support against President Nicolas Maduro.

Over sixty public sector officials on Thursday completed the fourth edition of Spanish as a Foreign Language course conducted by Professor Nelson Giraldo, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

Every year, without fail, a matter of days before the new academic year begins, teams of builders can be seen frantically trying to remedy and repair school houses defective in one way or another, for the start of classes.

A fine all-round performance by former Berbice senior cricketer Anil Beharry Saturday evening, led a Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) team to a convincing seven-wicket win against Invaders Masters of Essequibo in a specially arranged friendly game under lights at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground, Queenstown, Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Congratulations to the West Indies cricket team for a magnificent win over England at Headingly.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenya’s Supreme Court ruling to scrap last month’s presidential election was shaped by a new chief justice who proved a staunch defender of judicial independence on a continent where judges are often seen as being under the thumb of executive powers.

Here’s the worst thing that Pope Francis could do during his Sept.

VENICE,  (Reuters) – John Wayne was the inspiration for Frances McDormand’s portrayal of an angel of vengeance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”, the American said ahead of the movie’s premiere at the Venice film festival on Monday.