Daily Archive: Tuesday, January 23, 2018

  The legal team for former New Building Society (NBS) manager, Maurice Arjoon, who was wrongfully dismissed, have levied on the bank’s assets in a bid to recoup the $59,033,000 pension owed to him by the financial institution.

An alleged inebriated farmer of 54 Strath Campbell Village, Mahaicony, ECD, died at about 3 pm  yesterday at Chance Village, Mahaicony, after a vehicle he was reportedly not given permission to drive, crashed into a utility pole.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Rafa Nadal’s Australian Open quarter-final curse struck again on Tuesday, an injury forcing the top seed to retire in the fifth set against Croatia’s Marin Cilic.

Several hundred more sugar workers are expected to be laid off from the Skeldon, Rose Hall, and East Demerara estates by next month and the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) yesterday urged that the decision be reviewed.

The commencement order establishing the Telecommunications Agency was signed last Friday, in anticipation of the liberalisation of the telecoms sector, Minister of Public Tele-communications Cathy Hughes announced yesterday.

Nickela Craig-Singh, the woman who was arrested last Friday after the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) found over 10 pounds of cocaine in the ceiling of her Soesdyke home, was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison and fined over $14 million after pleading guilty to possession of the drug.

Almost two weeks after he made a Facebook post in which he questioned whether the Indian High Commission was interfering in Guyana’s internal affairs, Director of Public Information Imran Khan yesterday said that he regretted the “furore” his post created and admitted that it should have benefitted from “greater elegance or not have been made”.

A young man seen in a recent viral video being brutally murdered in neighbouring Venezuela has been identified as a Port Kaituma miner.

Andrea Paula Winfield, a Plaisance woman who had been intercepted while trying to smuggle just over five pounds of cocaine aboard a flight to Canada, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after she was found guilty of the crime.

A Region Five councillor was on Sunday placed under arrest after he allegedly assaulted his cousin at Number 11 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB).

The National Assembly on Friday evening approved the appointment of ten nominees to sit on the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) which has not been in operation since 2011.

Several members of the Georgetown City Council are convinced that Town Clerk Royston King is acting unilaterally and exposing the council to unnecessary criticism, although his mandate is to carry out their decisions.

A joint murder charge was yesterday laid against two men who were earlier in the year charged separately with the murder of French Guiana-based clothing vendor Purcell Moore.

The National Data Management Authority (NDMA) provided nearly 200,000 citizens with internet access in 2017, and another 89,000 are expected to benefit within the next five years, the Ministry of Public Telecommunications (MOPT) has reported.

The three suspects held in connection with the murders of Pomeroon farmers Ambrose Baharally and Martin Godette were released on station bail on Saturday as police continue to investigate.

The Kezeé Eco-Lodge in the Karasabai Village, Region Nine was launched on Saturday by Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, Valerie Garrido-Lowe.

(Reuters) Three USA Gymnas-tics board members resigned yesterday in the wake of its former team physician sexually abusing female gymnasts, a step the organization said would support its reform efforts.

(Reuters) – The presidents of world soccer and world athletics are set to be snubbed by the International Olympic Commit-tee (IOC) next month when the body is likely to again overlook them for membership, a source told Reuters yesterday.

The trial of Miguel Barker, who is accused of murdering his wife, yesterday heard that the woman was fatally attacked in a rear bedroom of a Bagotville house.

The cashed-strapped Georgetown municipality closed 2017 with a deficit of $57 million and completed less than 2% of its 2017 capital works programme.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium in Antigua will host the final of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup later this year, the International Cricket Council confirmed yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Congress voted yesterday to end a three-day U.S.

The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) launched its Community Paralegal Services Initiative on Wednesday at its 203 Duncan Street, Lamaha Gardens, Georgetown, Guyana office.

By Charwayne Walker When Tagenarine Chanderpaul reached three figures against Barbados at the Kensington Oval in the ninth round of the Cricket West Indies Digicel-sponsored Regional four day championships earlier this month, the son of the legendary Shivnarine Chanderpaul had placed himself and his father on an elite fathers and sons list who had the distinct honour of scoring a century at the Regional First Class Level.

An officer from the Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) was required to intervene on behalf of three school-aged children in Port Kaituma, North West District after reports were made of them being kept away from school.

HASSA, Turkey, (Reuters) – Turkey shelled targets in northwest Syria yesterday and said it would swiftly crush U.S.-backed

By Romario Samaroo Guyana Jaguars Head Coach, Esaun Crandon said Sunday that excellent preparation and planning were the factors mainly responsible for the Guyana Jaguars winning the just-concluded Cricket West Indies (CWI) Digicel Regional four-day competition.

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned, ‘National local gov’t conference boycotted again by PPP/C’ (SN, Jan 20).

The Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue area is being surveyed in preparation for huge expansion works to be conducted by Chinese company, Sinohydro Corporation Limited.

Dear Editor, As a consequence of two visits to me by ranks of the Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), “C” Division, requesting of me a statement as to whether or not I knew who authored a Petition and whether or not I knew who the Petitioners are, I felt compelled to go public.

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) will start its engine on its 2018 season Sunday with an Endurance Race Meet at the South Dakota Circuit.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Exiled former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, who is fighting for the right to contest a presidential poll this year, said yesterday that land grabbing by China was threatening peace and stability in the Indian Ocean.

BRUSSELS/CARACAS, (Reuters) – The European Union on Monday announced new sanctions on seven senior Venezuelan officials, saying this was an expression of the bloc’s concern with the political crisis under President Nicolas Maduro.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has noted the contents of the Alliance for Change (AFC) column titled `The chickens have come home to roost in the sugar industry’ which appeared in the January 21, 2018 Kaieteur News.

By Romario Samaroo The cycling season commences this weekend with back-to-back races and a familiar top gun, Hamza Eastman, who recently returned to his homeland, is already raising eyebrows for the rest of the cycling fraternity.

A man was yesterday arrested after trying to smuggle cigarettes and vodka to a prisoner in the holding cell at the magistrates’ courts complex in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, Mr. Rohit Persaud claimed in a letter `The PM has forgotten his former principles of frugality, – lean and clean government’ (SN January 16)  that our Prime Minister Hon.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Ageless Devon Smith smashed the record for the most runs in a single first class season as he stroked his sixth hundred of the Regional Four-Day Championship, to help earn Windward Islands Volcanoes a draw against Leeward Islands Hurricanes here Sunday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will build a “Great Wall” around its borders to prevent the infiltration of militants from outside the country, state media reported yesterday citing the regional governor.

The Rotaract Clubs of Guyana will be hosting the 26th annual Rotaract District 7030 Conference in June and the community of Hauraruni, on the Linden-Soesdyke High-way, is expected to benefit from a community project that will be undertaken by both local and visiting rotaractors as well as rotarians and friends of Rotary International.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in an extremely rare act of self-criticism, apologised to victims of clerical sex abuse on Sunday, acknowledging he had “wounded many” in comments defending a Chilean bishop who is under scrutiny.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – China invited Latin American and Caribbean countries to join its “One Belt, One Road” initiative yesterday, as part of an agreement to deepen economic and political cooperation in a region where U.S.

An accused thief, who police say was caught red-handed during a recent break-in, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of breaking and entering and larceny.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowler Keon Harding’s maiden five-wicket haul ripped apart Jamaica Scorpions as they crashed to a crushing 216-run defeat to Barbados Pride here Sunday.

Dear Editor: “We expect ExxonMobil will try to rob us as much as they can so it is now on us to figure out how best we can defeat them.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The International Labour Organization will send a mission to Caracas next week to investigate a complaint by Venezuela’s leading business group against the government, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder told a news conference in Geneva yesterday.

PORTO ALEGRE,  (Reuters) – Brazilian politicians, voters and investors will find out on Wednesday whether an appeals court will allow the country’s most popular leader, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, to run for president this year after being found guilty of accepting a bribe.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Chung Hyeon turned in a relentless display of high energy tennis to stun six-times Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic 7-6(4) 7-5 7-6(3) yesterday and become the first South Korean to reach a grand slam quarter-final.

Dear Editor, I have known Hilbert Shields literally all my life.

A gold miner who early yesterday  morning  was robbed of two cellular phones and a sum of cash, managed to subdue one of the four male suspects and promptly delivered him into the hands of the police.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Left arm spinner Jon Holland has been recalled to Australia’s test squad for their tour of South Africa in March, while fast bowler Jhye Richardson has been named for the first time.

Dear Editor, In the media the government is asking for viable options for the closed estates. 

The practical capabilities of technical staff of the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) are being advanced via two volunteers from  Cuso International.

DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Film star Cate Blanchett, singer-songwriter Elton John and Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan received awards at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday for their work raising awareness about human rights issues.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Dark comedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” won three prizes at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards on Sunday in a ceremony marked by women and their stories amid the sexual misconduct scandal that has swept Hollywood.

(Trinidad Express) A fourth killing has happened in less than 24 hours.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – More than 10 percent of funds raised through “initial coin offerings” are lost or stolen in hacker attacks, according to new research by Ernst & Young that delves into the risks of investing in cryptocurrency projects online.

President David Granger’s official visit to Brazil in December, his second visit there since assuming office in May 2015, points the way, hopefully, to kick-starting a more meaningful relationship between Guyana and a country that is an undisputed hemispheric economic partner and a key strategic ally in Guyana’s quest to stave off Venezuela’s absurd territorial claim.

Dear Editor, I do not normally get involved in matters of race and politics in a direct way, I prefer to address these issues in the context of good governance.

A thirty-year-old motorcyclist who last night allegedly rode into the rear of a stationary vehicle on the Wallers Delight Public Road, WCD, is warded at the GPHC in a serious condition.

LOS ANGELES,  (Variety.com) – Sony’s “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” has won its third weekend box office title with ease, topping newcomers “12 Strong” and “Den of Thieves,” with $20 million at 3,704 North American locations.

With a new series of serious blunders, the Trump administration is undoing decades of bipartisan U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The number of confirmed cases of yellow fever outbreak in Brazil has tripled in recent weeks, with 20 deaths since July, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa have promised a ruthless approach as they seek to inflict an historic series sweep when they host India for the third and final test at The Wanderers in Johannesburg tomorrow, says captain Faf du Plessis.