Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 10, 2018

This morning, a post-mortem examination was conducted on the body of Tevin Parris, the manager of Korner Kick Restaurant and Bar by Government Pathologist Dr.

President David Granger today said that laid off sugar workers will get 50% of their severance pay by the end of this month and the remainder in the second half of the year.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday from ending a program that shielded from deportation children brought to the United States illegally by their parents.

Finding a process to expedite the over 300 cases that the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is currently working on is high on its advisor Sam Sittlington’s agenda as he feels the delays are an injustice to both the people at the centre of the investigations and the police conducting it.

Anti-corruption activist Troy Thomas has asked the High Court to order Minister of Finance Winston Jordan to immediately deposit the US$18 million received from ExxonMobil as a signing bonus into the Consolidated Fund, while saying that his failure to do so is unlawful.

Hundreds of former sugar workers who were laid off from the Rose Hall Estate last year staged a protest yesterday to press for severance payments.

A Canal Number Two Polder farmer was yesterday remanded on charges that he aided in the attempted trafficking of over 100 pounds of cocaine and offered a bribe of almost $1.5 million to a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) for his release.

With January designated cervical cancer awareness month, the Cancer Institute of Guyana is offering free Pap smears and is encouraging women to take advantage of the service.

A woman was yesterday sentenced to 12 ½ years in jail for stabbing a man to death after he failed to deliver the Chinese food she had asked him to buy.

Joseph Persaud, the pastor who was arrested last November after being accused of rape by a church member, was charged yesterday with the crime.

Sylvester Bristol was yesterday sentenced to 16 years behind bars for the killing of taxi driver Savitri Gangadeen Parma, who was found strangled at Dakara Creek, Linden-Soesdyke Highway.

While many are busy putting away Christmas lights and decorations, Dexter ‘De Kid’ Marques has his hard hat on in the gym preparing for two of his most important fights of his professional boxing career.

Two men including a convicted prisoner were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the  nearly two-year-old murder of Brazilian gold miner, Naldinho De Costa Souza.

(Trinidad Guardian) West Indies and T&T left-handed batsman Darren Bravo says he never made himself available for the CWI Digicel PCL clash against the Windwards Hurricanes starting this Thursday in Grenada.

Returning consultant to Guyana’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Dr. Sam Sittlington says that while some persons may want to discredit or politicise his work, he should be judged on his performance.

Puran Brothers Waste Disposal Inc and Cevons Waste Management Inc, the two largest waste disposal contractors, have fully resumed operations in the city.

MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – Manchester City forward Sergio Aguero’s last-gasp header secured a 2-1 victory over Bristol City in their League Cup semi-final first leg yesterday after the second-tier side had frustrated the Premier League leaders.

LONDON  CMC – West Indies’ two highest-ranked players, Kraigg Brathwaite and Kemar Roach, lost ground but remained in the top 20 of the International Cricket Council’s player rankings released yesterday.

The best gifts are the ones that can be used daily and shoes are always a great idea.

Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan on Monday toured the Kitty Market which his ministry will help to finish after work was stalled for months as the city did not have the required funds.

(ICC) In the 1980s, the West Indies were the best side in the world, and perhaps the most feared side there has ever been.

The police in ‘A’ Division have launched an investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding an incident on Monday evening during which gunmen opened fire on a Diamond, East Bank Demerara house.

(ESPN) Martin Guptill’s brisk half-century led New Zealand to a comfortable eight-wicket victory on the DLS Method in the rain-interrupted second One-Day International against Pakistan in Nelson yesterday.

A North Ruimveldt pensioner was yesterday afternoon robbed of over half a million dollars after making a withdrawal from Scotia Bank on Robb Street.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Seven weeks of intense Ashes battle across Australia ended, as most of them have over the last three decades, with the hosts revelling in a comprehensive series triumph after an emphatic victory at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

A Bartica resident was yesterday granted $200,000 bail after he was charged with causing the death of Mark Dutchin, an overseer of the Region 7 Democratic Council (RDC), who was struck down and killed during last month along the Bartica roadway.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Former champions Stan Wawrinka and Rafa Nadal gave Australian Open organisers a massive boost on Tuesday when they both said they were looking forward to next week’s season opening grand slam after battling long-term injuries.

Dear Editor, The Linden Town Council voted overwhelmingly for Ms Arrindell and Mr Bethune to serve as mayor and deputy mayor, respectively, for the final year of council’s term.  

Financial proposals were submitted yesterday to the Office of Climate Change under the Ministry of the Presidency, for consultancy services on a Communications Strategy, Five-year Strategic Plan and Climate Change Policy.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Forty-two Russians have lodged appeals against bans issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following doping violations at the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Tuesday.

Dear Editor, Guyana now has to leap forward to modern development and transition from a primitive politics to political maturity.

The Guyana Police Force’s legal adviser is currently reviewing the file on the investigation of Motie Dookie, the former head of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit who was caught with 30 smuggled cases of whisky in late December.

The file on the investigation of the alleged rape committed by two policemen on a Sophia woman at the Turkeyen Police Station on New Year’s Day has been sent for legal advice, Crime Chief Paul Williams says.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Trevor Bayliss will step down as England coach when his contract expires after the home Ashes series in 2019, the Australian said on Tuesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s new trainer Ben Davison believes the boxer has been harshly judged by the public and will show a different side to his character when he returns to the ring.

A quick response by members of the Guyana Fire Service yesterday saved the Rossignol Butchery on Church Street, Georgetown from severe damage after a fire erupted in the kitchen area.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 7.6 that struck near remote islands belonging to Honduras yesterday was felt across northern Central America, prompting a tsunami warning for parts of the Caribbean which was later lifted.

Dear Editor, I take my hat off to Isabelle de Caires, a true daughter of David, on her piece in SN, Jan 9, entitled: ‘Are we all asleep at the wheel?’

A woman and her two daughters were last evening left in disarray after a fire of unknown origin gutted their two-storey home at Schoonord, West Bank Demerara.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Actress Catherine Deneuve and 99 other French women on Tuesday denounced a backlash against men following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, saying the #Metoo campaign against sexual harassment amounted to “puritanism” and was fuelled by a “hatred of men.”

Dear Editor, As the plot thickens with the ‘obsolete bulldozer’ saga more revelations and questions have emerged.

CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – India’s batsmen must show a more positive mindset to combat the South Africa bowling attack, their captain Virat Kohli said after losing the first test on Monday.

Dear Editor, A worrying trend is beginning to develop in Guyana. 

CIUDAD GUAYANA, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – A second day of lootings and scattered street protests hit the Ciudad Guayana in southeastern Venezuela on Tuesday, as unrest grows in the once-booming industrial city plagued with food shortages and a malaria outbreak.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s crimes angered state officials is due to begin enforced psychiatric testing this week amid fears he will be falsely declared insane, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

With a bigger budget, the Region Six administration expects to deliver major investments this year, including in education.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – All-rounder Angelo Mathews has been appointed Sri Lanka’s limited-overs skipper six months after relinquishing the captaincy across all three formats.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration will not allow drilling for oil and gas off the coast of Florida after urging from the state’s governor, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-run parliament on Tuesday outlawed a “petro” cryptocurrency promoted by socialist President Nicolas Maduro, calling it an effort to illegally mortgage the cash-strapped country’s oil reserves.

Dear Editor, I expected more organizations and individuals to castigate professionals and the Ministry of Agriculture who retrenched sugar workers.

Dear Editor, It is a special blessing for me to have known brother Dr Martin Boodhoo.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The head of Puerto Rico’s police was asked to step down from her post by the governor of the U.S.

  A Cumberland Village, East Canje Berbice hire car driver was placed on $200,000 bail on Monday after he appeared at the Blairmont Magistrate’s Court to answer to a charge of possession of narcotics.

As of January 1, 2018, the minimum wage in the province of Ontario, Canada was raised from $11.60 per hour to $14.00, by the current provincial government.

‘Government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another.’

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was ready to accept an onslaught of criticism if lawmakers tackle broad immigration reforms after an initial deal to help the young illegal immigrants known as Dreamers and build a wall on the U.S.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian batsman Yusuf Pathan has received a five-month ban due to a doping violation but will be free to play from Monday after it was backdated to August, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) has said.