Articles published on Saturday, July 14, 2018
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday as he faced a non-confidence vote after a move to lower fuel subsidies prompted days of violent protests in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
The Bank of Guyana (BoG) will soon have the ability to grant temporary financial bailouts to commercial banks in order to protect depositors from losses similar to those incurred when the Globe Trust and Investment Company Limited (GTICL) collapsed in 2004.
Two relatives of a missing 75-year-old Rose Hall Town, Corentyne man were arrested on Wednesday in connection with his disappearance.
Kwakwani remains in the grip of a deep flood and is bracing for more rain even as the authorities consider what steps to take for the hundreds of affected residents.
Three Stabroek Market vendors were yesterday charged with breaking and entering the L. Seepersaud Maraj and Sons jewellery store.
Social Protection Minister Amna Ally on Thursday said that a “request of assistance” is a prerequisite for funding of projects under the government’s Sustainable Livelihood and Entrepreneurial Development (SLED) Initiative.
The Guyana Police Force yesterday reported that it has recorded a 9% decrease in serious crimes for the year as at June 30th, compared with the same period for last year.
Officer-in-charge of the Felix Austin Police College Superintendent Shivpersaud Bacchus is currently recovering in a private city hospital after being involved in an accident yesterday morning along the Diamond Public Road, on the East Bank of Demerara.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – An inspired West Indies captain Jason Holder grabbed an outstanding five-wicket haul to rip Bangladesh to shreds and leave them with a mammoth task of saving the second and final Test.
The National Assembly on Thursday evening passed an amendment to the Insurance Act that is intended to incorporate protections for the beneficiaries of policy holders, which had been left out from the two-year-old legislation.
Guyana’s junior squash team which is currently participating in the Junior Caribbean Squash tournament in Jamaica notched up two additional wins in the boys and girls’ team events yesterday.
Justice Navindra Singh yesterday dismissed the applications made by Chairperson of the Guyana Public Service Cooperative Credit Union (GPSCCU) Management Committee Patricia Went, who challenged the Social Protection Ministry’s decision to seize control of the credit union.
The capping of the unauthorised well that erupted in Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, has commenced and a large part of the process has been completed, Civil Defence Commission (CDC) Director General (Ag) Lt.
The 12th annual Guyana Cup horse race meet scheduled for August 19th at the Rising Sun Turf Club has already begun to gain momentum in the form of support from corporate citizens.
Chairman of the CAC Judges Committee, Errol Williams is currently in Guyana to facilitate a seminar ahead of the National Senior Bodybuilding Championships tomorrow.
Percy Henry, an electrical contractor who was hospitalised after sustaining burns while working on an electricity pole a year ago, yesterday filed a $15 million lawsuit against the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) for the lifelong injuries and negligence.
A Charlotte Street man will be serving a year in jail after pleading guilty to stealing a total of over $700,000 in electrical wire and tools in two recent burglaries.
Swag Entertainment, Leopold Street, Sophia, Rhythm Star and Sophia secured opening wins, when the 6th edition of the GT-Beer ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Knockout Championship started on Thursday.
A labourer was yesterday charged with raping a 13-year-old girl. Dand Europe, 24, of an East Bank Demerara village, was brought before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in Georgetown, where the charge was read to him during an in-camera hearing.It
Dear Editor, The Township of Rose Hall might be Guyana’s smallest township but we are without doubt one of the fastest developing areas in the county.
The inaugural Nand Persaud’s Karibee Rice golf tournament will tee off today at the Lusignan Golf Club from 12:30h with Guyana’s best on show.
A Surinamese national, who police say was found with a large amount of currency strapped to her thighs after arriving in Guyana via a ‘backtrack’ route, was yesterday fined and ordered deported for illegal entry.
Dear Editor, What is happening at the Lusignan Prison? This penal institution is supposed to be a place of detention, discipline, correction and rehabilitation where prisoners are kept out of trouble, but it seems that it has become a hotbed for criminal activity, especially smuggling.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Serena Williams has made a career out of defying adversity so it should be no great surprise if, 10 months after a complicated childbirth, she reclaims her Wimbledon title today.
A police constable is now being prepared to face the full force of the law after being intercepted along the Cove and John Public Road, on the East Coast of Demerara, with over 45 pounds of cannabis.
While at eight years old most children are still playing and dreaming, Nicasey Abrams was already writing her destiny with her wild imagination.
TAUNTON, England, CMC – Rishabh Pant’s breezy half-century scuppered West Indies A’s hopes of victory as India A won the second and final four-day “Test” by five wickets here yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal grand jury yesterday charged 12 Russian intelligence officers with hacking Democratic computer networks in 2016, in the most detailed U.S.
Dear Editor, I, like the rest of Guyana I hope, am alarmed by the number of newborn deaths at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GHPC) for the year 2107 and the past decade, as reported in your newspaper of 13th July 2018 article entitled “119 newborn deaths in last year at GPHC”.
Police yesterday arrested a security guard after the discovery of an unlicensed weapon and a quantity of ammunition in the vehicle he was driving in Bourda, Georgetown.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. intelligence chief warned yesterday that the threat was growing for a devastating cyber assault on critical U.S.
Dear Editor, Stabroek News’ ‘Politikles’ yesterday warrants a comment; first off because it seemingly conveys the view that there has not been diversity in the past choices for presidents by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).
Hi Everyone, I recently watched an episode of “The Hairy Bikers” (British TV Chefs), ‘Chicken and Egg’ series in which they visited Israel.
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra fired his justice minister yesterday after local media released an audio of a secretly-recorded phone conversation between the minister and a judge under investigation for influence peddling.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies B’ coach, Roddy Estwick, believes his side’s “fearless mindset” has been crucial to their success in the inaugural Global T20 Canada.
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge in California yesterday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to pay the costs of reuniting immigrant parents with children separated from them by officials at the U.S.-Mexican
Dear Editor, As the curtain comes down on a rather drab 2018 World Cup, I share some of the thoughts that came during the occasional high points and the many disappointments.
While two persons have been arrested, a manhunt is underway for the prime suspect in the slaying of Ricardo Singh, the 15-year-old who was stabbed on Monday morning during an altercation at a wedding house on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway.
I wrestle with the idea of personal style being alive and well in the 21st century.
WINDSOR CASTLE, England, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday the United States and Britain could secure a “great” post-Brexit trade deal, lavishing praise on Prime Minister Theresa May and contradicting his own withering assessment of her strategy publicised hours earlier.
LONDON, (Reuters) – It was a case of better late than never as Kevin Anderson reached his first Wimbledon final with a heart-stopping 7-6(6) 6-7(5) 6-7(9) 6-4 26-24 win over the sport’s perennial ultra marathon man John Isner yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic clawed his way to a two sets to one lead over great rival Rafael Nadal under the Centre Court roof before their scintillating Wimbledon semi-final was paused with the contest balanced on a knife-edge yesterday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Billionaire Flavio Rocha dropped his bid to become president of Brazil yesterday as rival centre-right parties seek to draw his Brazilian Republican Party (PRB) into an alliance for the October elections.
The documents presented for the private aircraft that landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Monday, with suspected false registration numbers, have been verified and proven to be authentic.
Dear Editor, I recently wrote a letter to your newspaper which you published under the heading `Time for the Indigenous people to shake up the status quo’ in which I called on my Amerindian brothers and sisters to form their own party so as to empower themselves and have a say in the affairs of this country.
Naomi Horsford who goes by the stage name Young Royalty has moved back to England where she spent some of her early years and has been turning up the heat in the reggae community which led to her being signed to the management of Britain’s Got Reggae.
LAHORE, (Reuters) – Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, both facing lengthy prison terms, were arrested minutes after landing in the country yesterday as they returned seeking to revitalise their flagging party ahead of a July 25 election.
(BBC) England women wasted a fantastic start to lose the third one-day international against New Zealand by four wickets yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Former Marxist FARC rebel commanders in Colombia, headed by their leader Rodrigo Londono, appeared before a tribunal yesterday that will try crimes allegedly committed during the country’s five-decade civil war.
Rapper/conscious artiste Rondel ‘Disi’ Holder has yet again taken the gospel arena in Guyana to another level with his debut album ‘Next Level’ which was released in April.
Dear Editor, With a population of 747,000, Guyana seems to be turning back the hands of time.
As far as films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe go, “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and its predecessor are clear outliers.
I knew an elderly man who was not in agreement with women and girls wearing pants.
When France play Croatia in the World Cup final tomorrow, the teams will quite literally embody two competing visions of European nationhood.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Commerce yesterday lifted a ban on U.S.
Sherod Duncan’s attendance at Georgetown City Council meetings became a talking point at Monday’s statutory meeting, which heard that he had possibly “disqualified” himself from continuing to serve as a councillor due to his absences.
Aerial shots of the flooding in the Berbice River community of Kwakwani (DPI photos)
