Daily Archive: Friday, May 18, 2018

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon (third from right), yesterday, paid a visit to Naresh Persaud (right) and his family, to offer words of comfort and support in the wake of the brutal beating that he endured after three armed bandits invaded his La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home on Wednesday morning. 

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed in a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba today, with just three seriously injured survivors in hospital after being pulled from the wreckage, officials and state media said.

Residents living along Princes Street, in Lodge, will benefit from rehabilitative works  on the road which had become structurally unsound.

The police today said that they are investigating an armed robbery committed on a mining camp located at the Baboon Backdam, Cuyuni River on Wednesday May 16,2018 between 19:00-00:00 hrs.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today said in a release it  has taken note of two articles which appeared in a daily newspaper referencing statistics on tax concessions granted to foreign mining companies.

Two men, alleged to be bandits, were killed earlier today after they attempted to commit a robbery at a D’ Urban Street, Georgetown store.

 (Reuters) – At least eight people were killed today  in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, a local sheriff said, with one person in custody and a second detained.

The government today condemned a report by the online news service, Citizens Report on the arrest in Grenada on drug charges of Derrick Patterson, the brother of Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson.

The US$460m pre-contract costs claim submitted to the Guyana Government by ExxonMobil’s subsidiary and its two partners do not add up and is overstated by at least US$92m, according to chartered accountant and business analyst, Christopher Ram.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Proposals to scrap the time-honoured tradition of a coin toss prior to test matches defy logic and should not be considered, according to several former South Asian cricket captains.

A Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara fisherman died yesterday after a co-worker slit his throat at the Number 65 Village, Corentyne wharf during a fight.

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson says that his younger brother, Derrick Patterson who is facing drug charges in Grenada would have to take full responsibility for his actions.

Guyana’s most exciting bantamweight pugilist, Elton Dharry continues his latest climb in the world rankings when he takes the ring tonight in Queens, New York against Oscar Mojica.

A fellow villager, said to be a drug addict, was yesterday charged with the murder of Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara fruit vendor Fareez Yassem, who was stabbed over 40 times about his body on Monday during a suspected robbery at his home.

IPL: The Royal Challengers Bangalore kept themselves alive in the race to the VIVO IPL 2018 Playoffs after they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs in a run-feast at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday night.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) yesterday said it remains the only legally-recognised representative of Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) workers and accused the agency and the Natural Resources Ministry of colluding to breach the labour laws by withholding the payment of dues from workers who have joined a new union.

A second victim has succumbed following the collision on Sunday along the Kuru Kururu Public Road, Soesdyke-Linden Highway.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde, has defended the current state and structure of youthful football locally, declaring that the present level of activity is unmatched in the history of the federation.

Cycling action returns to the National Park tomorrow with the Eighth Annual Powerade 11-race programme.

The Mayor and Councillors of the city of Georgetown yesterday said that it has given notice of removal to those individuals who operate horse-drawn carts around the Nurses Association building on Alexander Street, Bourda.

The inaugural ExxonMobil U14 Boys and Girls Football Championship was officially launched yesterday at the Cara Lodge Hotel, Quamina Street.

The police have taken fingerprints from the scene of Wednesday morning’s attack on businessman Naresh Persaud and his family at their La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home and they are working towards identifying the three suspects.

Guyana’s aviation sector will record a modest but important milestone today when it commences the hosting of the 15th Annual General Meeting of the Caribbean Aviation Handlers Association (CAHA) in the country’s capital, Georgetown.

A man was yesterday acquitted by majority verdicts on three counts of rape.

The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has shortlisted their provisional Men’s and Women’s squads for the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships, set for Suriname from June 15th-30th, 2018.

A significant step in the direction of forging the long sought closer ties between the University of Guyana and the country’s business community will be taken this weekend when the university’s recently established School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (SEBI) commences its first ever Entrepreneurship   and Innovation Conference under the theme “Economic Transformation through Entrepreneurship   & Innovation.”

A Guyana Police Force (GPF) officer was brought before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Lindo Creek murders on Tuesday to present records from police stations located in the same district around the time of the murders.

Guyana Under-15 player, Mavendra Dindyal dazzled in a rain hit match, as his school team Diamond Secondary, advanced to the next round on first innings points over La Bonne Intention (LBI) Secondary at Lusignan Community Centre on Thursday in the Regional Democratic Council/Lloyd Britton/Devcon Construction/Regional Executive Officer Region Four Inter Secondary Schools Knockout Cricket Tournament.

Dear Editor, The recent charges made against Dr. Ashni Singh and Mr.

ST JOHN’S Antigua, CMC – Chairman of West Indies selectors, Courtney Browne, believes the regional women’s side are good enough to defend their title and win the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup for a second time.

By Richard Rambarran and Shaleeza Shaw Since the conception of capitalism, competition has been the driver of economic growth, development and unprecedented rise in living standards.

City Hall has once again aggravated a residential community by appropriating its recreational space for commercial purposes – in this case Roxanne Burnham Gardens for a barbecue pit.

Dear Editor, Corporate Governance was designed to facilitate guardianship of the company’s assets for their real owners. 

(Trinidad Guardian) The Bankers Association of Trinidad & Tobago (BATT) has noted the optimism by Finance Minister Colm in his 2017/2018 mid-year budget review but said there is still a lot of work to be done to consolidate the gains made and press ahead with restructuring public finances.

KUALA LUMPUR,  (Reuters) – Malaysia’s ousted former premier Najib Razak was “totally shattered” the night he lost the general election and called his jailed rival Anwar Ibrahim twice for advice on what he should do, Anwar said on Thursday.

Former Deputy Mayor Lionel Jaikarran has resigned from the post as Chairman of the municipality’s Markets and Public Health Committee.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal swept into the quarter-finals of the Italian Open on Thursday with a ruthless 6-4 6-1 victory over Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov.

You could tell from the expressionless mask that she wore that Veronica Clinton had heard it all before.

A South Ruimveldt man was yesterday granted bail after he denied assaulting a policeman.

Dear Editor, The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Two calls on the Ministry of Public Infrastructure and other relevant authorities to consider restoring some Pedestrian Crossings that were removed along the Essequibo Coast Public Road.

Field Level Media: Eric Gordon and P.J. Tucker sparked a revival by Houston’s role players, and the Rockets evened the Western Conference finals with a 127-105 victory over the visiting Golden State Warriors in Game 2 on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) Two backseat passengers in Jordahn McCarthy’s car the day he died in a crash, hold the key unravelling how it happened.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian police seized 284 boxes containing designer handbags and dozens of bags filled with cash and jewellery from a private residence linked to former prime minister Najib Razak last night.

(Trinidad Express) Two Laventille men were expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate yesterday, charged with kidnapping, rape and buggery against a 21-year-old woman.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A decade ago, the news that the world’s top oil and gas companies had less than 12 years of production left in their reserves might have caused a panicked sell-off in their shares.

Weeks after the Mayor and City Council stopped vendors from illegally trading along a section of Alexander Street, between Robb and Regent streets in Georgetown, Town Clerk Royston King yesterday declared that no vending would be permitted along that part of the road.

Dear Editor, Yesterday morning some Senior Managers from GuySuCo requested an urgent meeting with the Acting Chief Executive to express their growing concerns, disgust and impatience with the less than honourable manner in which the management of the Corporation is being projected in certain sections of the media, particularly on some matters.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government has been giving Venezuelan identification cards to Colombians in order to transport them over the border to vote for him in Sunday’s presidential elections, the Colombian government said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – China is offering U.S. President Donald Trump a package of trade concessions and increased purchases of American goods aimed at cutting the U.S.

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LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s World Cup preparations are usually accompanied by the ritual of divisive debates and the raising of expectations to stratospheric levels — neither of which have helped in their 52-year wait for the trophy.

Stakeholders, including organisations and individuals in Georgetown, who may want to make submissions and recommendations for the revision of the 2006 Amerindian Act, will have the opportunity to do so on May 21st and May 22nd.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday barred immigration judges from a once-common practice of shelving deportation cases involving some immigrants with deep ties to the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Chinese HNA Group, which has extensive interests in hotels, has been invited to submit a competitive bid to partner with the Government of T&T on the Sandals project once the tender process is initiated.

Dear Editor, This was one of the more popular themes of the morning devotional talks given by Mr Eustace Wilson, the Deputy Principal of my High School.

(Reuters) – Neymar has been allowed to fly back to Brazil after he resumed training with Paris St Germain so that he can get ready for the World Cup, his Ligue 1 club said on Thursday.

Dear Editor, Guyana is a land of several ‘truths.’ There is a APNU+AFC ‘truth’.

(Trinidad Express) A soldier has been detained at the Cumuto Barracks. He is being investigated for the allegedly rape of several school girls.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the disbarment of a New York lawyer accused of threatening to have cafe workers deported after he heard them speaking Spanish, an incident caught on video that went viral.

A labourer was yesterday ordered to do four weeks of community service after he admitted to stealing a car battery.

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Workers from the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and the Palms Rehabilitation Department yesterday hosted a Sports and Fun Day for stroke survivors and amputees.

(Reuters) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said Brazil face a selection dilemma whether to start with his team’s striker Gabriel Jesus or Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino at the World Cup.

-honey, duck meat among items facing hurdles If the Council for Trade and Economic Development is to take seriously long outstanding issues, particularly those relating to non-compliance by member states based on provisions of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, consideration must be given to their rights to take those matters to the Caribbean Court of Justice.

The Georgetown City Hall has long been recognised as one of the more picturesque representations of Gothic Revival architecture in the city, and in Guyana as a whole.

Dear Editor, What is the status of the election petition filed in June 2015?

Column 43 dealt mainly with Associated Gas and my plan was to deal with non-associated gas this week.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors have charged 11 people with planning to establish an Islamic State cell in Brazil and trying to recruit jihadists to send to Syria, the federal prosecutors office in the state of Goias said yesterday.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – Congolese and U.N. officials were racing yesterday to prevent a runaway Ebola outbreak in Congo, working out the logistics of keeping newly arrived vaccines well below freezing in a steamy region on the equator with unreliable power.

You-all know that this man-in-the street columnist knows his place. Lofty subjects like the (vagaries of the) law, I leave to those qualified.

Even as the World Health Organization (WHO) intensifies its global lobby for a sharp reduction in the sugar content of popular soft drinks on health grounds, the regional soda industry is seizing hold of the issue as a selling point for its own sugar-based beverages, through claims that they have moved to reduce sugar levels in their products.

There can be no question than that the high rate of urban unemployment and what is widely believed to be a consequential high rate in the commission of crimes, both petty and significant ones, that those institutions responsible for managing the affairs of the capital at the levels of both local and central government have a responsibility to do what lies within their authority and their resources to create meaningful and sufficient employment for residents of the capital.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola signed a contract extension with the Premier League champions on Thursday that will keep him in the job until 2021.