Daily Archive: Tuesday, March 13, 2018

After a lengthy trial at the High Court in Berbice, a woman and her friend have been found guilty of murdering her husband Abdool Shakeel Majid, in 2012.

A 33-year-old shop owner was yesterday afternoon shot and killed during an argument at his shop at Wismar, Linden.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with loyalist CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela needs to dollarize its economy, seek $15 billion to $20 billion a year from abroad, and ease oil sector taxes to reverse the “disaster” of President Nicolas Maduro’s rule, according to an adviser to his main election rival.

In a more than six-hour long hearing before the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), attorneys for the state yesterday argued that amendments to effect the presidential term limit were done in accordance with the Constitution, even as those representing the challenger maintained that a referendum was required and that the two-term restriction is unlawful.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to visit Guyana later this year.

Questions about the misuse of funds by the Region Two administration and a subsequent audit have revealed several other contraventions, including breaches in the award of contracts, payments for incomplete works, and misallocation of funds for at least six projects last year.

Prior to the staging of the fourth Guyana Fitness Games ‘Fitness Challenge’, 2016 and 2017 winner, Dillon Mahadeo set the goal of recording a three-peat.

The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday deemed recent comments made by Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) Chair-man retired Justice James Patterson about the Audi-tor General (AG) inappropriate and disrespectful.

-HARARE, Zimbabwe, CMC – Both Evin Lewis and Marlon Samuels found form in time for the all-important Super Sixes, stroking half-centuries as West Indies beat the Netherlands by 54 runs under Duckworth/Lewis to end the preliminaries of the ICC World Cup qualifiers unbeaten here yesterday.

Each year on March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated the world over with thousands of events held by women’s networks which include global gatherings, conferences, award ceremonies, exhibitions, festivals, fun runs, corporate events, concert performances etc.

City Magistrate Leron Daly yesterday exhorted Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) prosecutor Michael Somersall to make a promised disclosure from a forensic audit report so that a decision could be made on proceeding in the fraud matters brought against members of the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB).

Former Permanent Secretary (PS) of the Legal Affairs Ministry Indira Anandjit yesterday testified that the funds used by former attorney general Anil Nandlall to purchase law reports, which are said to be the property of the Ministry of Legal Affairs, were sourced from the Consolidated Fund.

Chein ‘Shaeed’ Gittens struck a boundary-studded 120 to see Muslim Youth Organization (MYO) post 300-6 before Timer Mohammed’s 6-21 saw MYO dismissing Diplomats for 82 on Sunday at the MYO ground, Woolford Avenue to secure a massive 218-run win in the New Building Society (NBS) 40-overs-a-side, second-division cricket competition.

The construction of the $132m Diamond/Golden Grove Magistrate’s Court is expected to commence soon with the aim of providing more accessible justice to residents along the East Bank of Demerara corridor before the end of this year.

Police Sports Club, Sunday defeated the Malteenoes Sports Club by an innings and 80 runs in their Georgetown Cricket Association Noble House Seafoods second division two day competition at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

Leon Andrews withstood the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) bowling to remain unbeaten  on 143 as the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) drew their match against GNIC in the Noble House Seafoods second- division two-day competition.

Two American women who survived the Jonestown tragedy on November 18, 1978 have finally returned to Guyana to show appreciation and have dialogue with the residents of the mainly Amerindian community.

History has repeated itself in the Region One township of Mabaruma as elections for the Mayoral position ended in a stalemate again yesterday.

Defending champion Guyana Defence Force (GDF),  took the top spot of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Elite League standings, downing Victoria Kings by a 2-0 score line, Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

Pure Masters, Morgan Learning Centre and Buxton Youth Developers, sealed their respective berths to the quarterfinal round, following round of 16 victories Sunday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

With the planned Department of Energy under the Ministry of the Presidency to assume responsibility for the oil and gas sector, Minister of State Joseph Harmon will become the person answerable to the legislature.

Dear Editor, Dr Harold Drayton, the individual who was tasked by then Premier Cheddi Jagan to establish the University of Guyana (UG) in 1963, passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning, March 11, in the United States.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa,  (Reuters) – South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada was suspended for two test matches and will miss the rest of the series against Australia, hours after being named man of the match in his team’s six-wicket win in the second test yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – West Indies A failed in their bid for a second successive whitewash when they went down to England Lions by seven wickets, in the third and final one-dayer here Sunday night.

A mother of six was yesterday remanded to prison after she was accused of stabbing her brother, who remains hospitalised in a critical condition.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to a letter published in the March 12, 2018 editions of Stabroek News and Kaieteur News, under the headlines, ‘Canal No 1 project causing thick dust’ and ‘Why was it not possible to find a better way to undertake this project?

Dear Editor, The National Forest Action Plan proposed for 2018 reads well as an academic document.

(Reuters) Karl-Anthony Towns followed in his own miss with 37.5 seconds to play Sunday afternoon, helping the Minnesota Timberwolves hold off the Golden State Warriors 109-103 in Minneapolis to snap a three-game losing streak.

By United States Ambassador Perry L. Holloway As Guyana welcomed hundreds of delegates to attend its most recent oil and gas conference in February, the world saw a nation poised to be transformed. 

Former murder accused Leon Duncan, called ‘Whistle,’ was yesterday granted his release on a total of $160,000 after he pleaded guilty to wounding and assault charges stemming from a fight at a Mashramani party, where two security guards were attacked.

An Airy Hall fisherman was fatally struck with a piece of wood in his head on Sunday night by a relative following an argument between the two and the police have recorded a confession.

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has defended the appointment of businesswoman Allison Butters-Grant to the Council of the University of Guyana (UG).

Dear Editor, There have been at least two recent complaints about excessive vibrations to buildings caused by pile-driving on adjacent lots.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Honduran security forces, especially the military police, used excessive and lethal force against protesters demonstrating against President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s disputed re-election in November, the United Nations said on Monday.

President David Granger has called for sun-rich states such as Guyana to have access to the necessary solar technologies.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Shardul Thakur’s career-best 4-27 and Manish Pandey’s mature 42 not out helped secure India’s comprehensive six-wicket victory against Sri Lanka in their Twenty20 tri-series match yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday it was “highly likely” that Moscow was responsible for the poisoning in England of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter using a military-grade nerve agent.

Dear Editor, In what appears to be a carefully thought-out plan, Councillors were surprised by the way the draft M&CC Budget for the fiscal year 2018 was passed by the Councillors who remained at the Extra-ordinary Statutory Meeting of the council on Wednesday 7th March 2018, to discuss and decide on this 133 page document.

WASHINGTON/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday it fully expects an unprecedented meeting between U.S.

(Barbados Nation) The alert level of the underwater volcano Kick ‘em Jenny, located near Grenada, has been raised from yellow to orange, but there is no indication of it posing any immediate danger to Barbados.

LONDON, (Reuters) – James Whitaker will leave his role as England’s chief national selector at the end of the month as part of a revamp of the team selection process, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said yesterday.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s former FARC rebels will not field a candidate in the country’s May presidential election as its hopeful, Rodrigo Londono, battles heart problems, the group said yesterday.

Bisnauth Terry Chan, the electrical contractor who was shot in his head during a robbery almost three weeks ago is calling on the police to capture the suspects while relating that the key witness is in fear of his life after spotting the attackers near his worksite at Linden during last week.

CHISINAU, (Reuters) – Moldova’s justice minister resigned yesterday after a leaked telephone conversation appeared to show him chatting in 2015 with a man later convicted of what is known in the country as the “theft of the century”.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC West Indies opener Lendl Simmons scored a half-century in only his second outing of the Pakistan Super League but Karachi Kings lost to Lahore Qalanders via the one-over eliminator in a dramatic contest here Sunday.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle’s decision to stop the independent columns of Professor and patriot Dr David Hinds and trade union expert and patriot Lincoln Lewis is a stinging slap in the face of Guyana’s democracy.

Dear Editor, Since May, 2017, when the Minister of Finance reported that only 20% of the country’s Public Sector Improvement Programme (PSIP) had been completed, I started to do an analysis, though not as in-depth as I would have liked to, of what might be some of the fundamental problems for this lower than expected delivery.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England cricketer Ben Stokes yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges of affray following an incident in Bristol last September and he will face trial on Aug.

When Chile’s President-elect Sebastian Pinera told me that Chile may become Latin America’s first developed country by 2025, I was skeptical.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said yesterday about 511,000 people had been killed in the Syrian war since it began seven years ago.

Even in a global community where the international relations agenda is teeming with other issues of pressing importance – the Syrian crisis and its related superpower confrontation; the resurfacing geo-political tensions in the Middle East; political instability linked to regime change in Africa; the protracted crisis confronting the Maduro administration in Venezuela; and Russia’s fast-eroding relationship with the West –  no current global development comes close to matching the recent dramatic turn of events than relations between the United States and North Korea.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados Labour Party (BLP) leader Mia Mottley has warned the Freundel Stuart administration that action will be taken if thousands of acres of land owned by CLICO, lots of it in St John, are sold between now and general elections.