Daily Archive: Friday, May 11, 2018

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today restored the 2013 acquittals of James Hyles and Mark Royden Williams for their alleged involvement in the ‘Lusignan Massacre’ of 2008, despite substantial procedural errors at trial.

(Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos predicted today there would be “regime change” soon in neighbouring Venezuela, which holds a controversial presidential election on May 20 likely to consolidate socialist rule.

A badly decomposed body suspected to be that of a missing fisherman from the April 27th piracy attack, yesterday washed up on the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne, Berbice.

A Linden taxi driver was fatally stabbed yesterday morning after he was attacked by his reputed wife’s former partner.

Following a request by the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM), a team from the United Nation is here evaluating what electoral assistance may be needed for the Local Government Elections due by the end of this year and the 2020 General Elections.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday overturned a ruling by the Guyana Court of Appeal, ending a decades-long land dispute between two Essequiban brothers, when it ruled that adverse possession of the land by one, trumped any titled interest of the other.

Abosaide Cadogan defeated her rival Madison Fernandes in the most exciting match on the third evening of the Woodpecker Products Junior Nationals Squash tournament at the Georgetown Club Squash Court last evening.

Former Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Normalization Committee (October 2014/ November 2015) Chairman Clinton Urling, spoke to Stabroek Sport on the current landscape of local football and issues affecting the sport.

Thirty-five-year-old Vindra Siriram Persaud now faces sentencing for the unlawful killing of his wife, Shelly-Ann Persaud, who was found with her head submerged in a half-filled bucket of water.

A third man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with the murder of America Street money changer Shawn Nurse, also known as ‘Fabulous’, who was killed during an attempted robbery earlier this year.

LONDON, CMC – Recently crowned Commonwealth Games champion, Kyron McMaster, says he has embraced the challenges served up by the 400 metres hurdles event.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon is likely to face a series of questions on the Guyana People’s Militia at today’s sitting of the National Assembly.

International soft drinks brand, Pepsi and the Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club, (RHTY&SC) on Tuesday last renewed their long standing relationship.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – New Australia coach Justin Langer understands how Cameron Bancroft became embroiled in the ball-tampering scandal and said he would have cheated too if instructed to by senior players when he first played test cricket.

Forty-year-old Lloyd Green was yesterday sentenced to 10 years in prison for the stabbing death of his brother-in-law with whom he had previously had a fight.

Two of the persons detained here for the vicious April 27th attack on more than a dozen fishermen in Suriname waters were yesterday released on $100, 000 station bail each while the third will most likely be set free on Monday.

(Barbados Nation) The West Indian Rebel Tours of South Africa in 1983 and 1984 made little to no impact towards the development of black cricket in South Africa.

A Guyanese woman said to be in her mid-30s was found dead in a house at Long Point, St Kitts yesterday afternoon.

Demerara Under-17 all-rounder Andrew Samaroo produced a splendid all round performance yesterday to lead Cummings Lodge Secondary to a 107-run win over Bladen Hall Secondary at Lusignan Community Center Ground, East Coast Demerara.

(Reuters) – Ireland captain William Porterfield hailed the contributions made by the team’s former players as they prepare to make their test debut against Pakistan in Malahide today.

The Caribbean Community’s foreign affairs ministers have reiterated support for  Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in its border controversy with Venezuela and have taken note of this country’s move to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for a final resolution of the matter.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Director of Competitions Ian Alves, has stated that he is uncertain when the second half of Season Three of the Elite League will commence.

Masked, gun-toting bandits, during the wee hours of yesterday morning, robbed the operators of the Lucky Star Chinese Restaurant, located at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara, of hundreds of thousands in cash.

None of its natural features make a more eminent case for Essequibo’s potential as one of Guyana’s most attract tourist destinations than its tranquil and idyllic lakes, not least Lake Mainstay, located at the Mainstay/Whyaka Amerindian Village, seven miles from the region’s administrative hub at Anna Regina and a twenty-minute plane ride from Georgetown.

Former Georgetown Chamber President, Vishnu Doerga wants local Business Support Organizations (BSO’s) to improve their capacity to provide advocacy, technical support and other services to the country’s private sector, responsibilities which he says, are not being discharged effectively at this time.

(IPL): Shikhar Dhawan and Kane Williamson shared an unbeaten 176-run stand to overshadow a breathtaking hundred from Rishbah Pant as SunRisers Hyderabad cruised into the Indian Premier League (IPL) play-offs with a commanding nine-wicket victory over Delhi Daredevils at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Thursday night.

MADRID, (Reuters) – World number one Rafa Nadal set a new record of winning 50 consecutive sets on a single surface by beating Argentine Diego Schwartzman 6-3 6-4 on Thursday to reach the Madrid Open quarter-finals.

Police ranks on a mobile patrol in Dennis Street, Campbellville  about 8 pm on Wednesday observed the suspicious behaviour of two males, each riding a bicycle and decided to stop and search them.

Amidst its political and financial crisis and seemingly in response to widely reported food shortages in the country Venezuela is reportedly continuing to import significant quantities of rice since parting company with the 2009 rice for oil (PetroCaribe) deal with Guyana. 

If fishing has always been an integral part of Essequibo’s economy there is evidence that the transformation that has descended upon business in  the region has rendered the fishing industry increasingly important to the livelihoods of its residents.

MADRID, (Reuters) – World number one Simona Halep’s Madrid Open hat-trick hopes ended as she was overpowered 6-4 6-3 in the quarter-finals by inspired Czech Karolina Pliskova on Thursday.

A teenage girl, reportedly preparing to write the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exam, and a taxi driver, were yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with trafficking 26 pounds of cannabis.

SOLAI, Kenya,  (Reuters) – A dam on a commercial flower farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley burst after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a “sea of water” that careered down a hillside and smashed into two villages, killing at least 47 people.

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A 23-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was read charges of attempted murder, armed robbery, and firearm use, one of the incidents stemming from an attack on two Kitty market vendors in March.

Field Level Media: Jayson Tatum’s go-ahead basket with 22.5 seconds left sent the Boston Celtics back to the Eastern Conference finals with a 114-112 win against the visiting Philadelphia 76ers in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series Wednesday night.

At fifty-three, work and family having long been at the very centre of his existence, Lancelot McPherson says that the time is long overdue for a frank, open and decidedly public conversation on the local craft industry if it is ever to come even remotely close to fulfilling its potential as much as a viable sector of the country’s economy as well as a vehicle for satisfying both the economic and the creative cravings of the nation’s huge army of largely talented craftspeople.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia’s seventh prime minister yesterday after a stunning election comeback, defeating the coalition that has ruled the nation for six decades since independence from Britain.

Dear Editor, My colleagues, in reminiscing with me, reminded that there was a form of what is now ‘regional administration’ since the old colonial times.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – The Bangladesh Cricket Board said it was “really disappointed” that a test tour of Australia had been scrubbed for financial reasons.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – The Peruvian government hiked excise taxes on sugary drinks, alcohol, cigarettes and polluting cars yesterday in a bid to tackle public health problems linked to obesity and cancer while shoring up public resources.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he had high hopes of “doing something very meaningful” to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions at a summit in Singapore next month, after Pyongyang smoothed the way for talks by freeing three American prisoners.

(Reuters) – A United Arab Emirates-based coach has been provisionally suspended and charged with three counts of corruption, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday.

Dear Editor, The events of the past week involving the charges laid against Dr.

Thirty-two-year-old Princess Cosbert’s story of how, about two years ago, she came to establish an enterprise that is beginning to make its name as a manufacturer of what is commonly referred to in Guyana as ‘bush’ tea (teas brewed from an assortment of leaves, vines, barks, berries and flowers that grow randomly in various parts of the country) is not one that you are likely to forget easily.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – ConocoPhillips said yesterday it would continue enforcing legal actions against Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA until it receives a payment to satisfy a $2 billion arbitration award recently issued by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Jermaine Abel, the North Ruimveldt man accused of fatally stabbing a peacemaker who attempted to stop a fight in his neighbourhood last November, was yesterday committed to stand trial.

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BANJUL,  (Reuters) – Gambia is selling several planes and a fleet of luxury cars bought by former president Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce a mountain of crippling debt contracted during the authoritarian leader’s decades-long rule.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Aerodynamic rule changes are expected to make Formula One cars one-and-a-half seconds slower per lap in 2019, the governing FIA said on Thursday.

PAHOA, Hawaii, (Reuters) – Residents on the Big Island of Hawaii were alerted yesterday to rising levels of toxic gas from lava-oozing fissures, and geologists warned that new areas east of the erupting Kilauea volcano may be at risk to molten rock bursting from the ground.

Dear Editor, From time to time, the returning diaspora attracts deep-seated misunderstanding and malice. 

The Kitty roundabout is nearly complete and set to be fully open to motorists before Independence Day.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 772’s trading results showed consideration of $33,064,349 from 252,766 shares traded in 16 transactions as compared to session 771’s trading results which showed consideration of $4,098,604 from 69,362 shares traded in 10 transactions.

-Free education very expensive! Expectedly, all the pronouncements from political and trade union leaders, the commentaries from Rights Activists, the “sensitivities” aroused, conspired to stimulate almost national debate about the May fifth “arrival” of Indentured Immigrants from the Indian sub-continent.

(Prepared by the Guyana Marketing Corporation andpublished by Stabroek Business as a public service) The New Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

The announcement last week that the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) had intercepted a boat containing cargo (foreign chicken and mosquito coils) seemingly intended for illegal placement on the local market, makes two points; first that the GRA, through its enforcement mechanisms, now appears more determined to thwart customs evasion by smugglers and to improve on the collection of such revenues as accrue to the state.

(Reuters) – Los Angeles agreed yesterday to pay $2 million to settle a civil lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in 2015 that went viral in an online video and fueled a U.S.

When Paul Arjune, a father of eight, appeared before a city magistrate charged with escaping from police custody his explanation was as simple as it was profound: “I escape out of frustration,” was his telling retort.

Part 43   One feature of the Esso/Hess/CNOOC 2016 Agreement – as indeed the 1999 Esso Agreement signed by President Janet Jagan – which has received little public attention is Gas which is addressed in Article 12 of both Agreements.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska has handed back three private jets he was leasing because U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – French Caribbean side Haiti will provide Lionel Messi’s Argentina with their final home warm-up match before next month’s World Cup in Russia, when the two teams meet on May 29 in Buenos Aires.

Dear Editor, The number of homeless animals ending up in the shelter is staggering.

German’s Soup is set for its Brooklyn, New York opening tomorrow.