Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 17, 2018

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump tried today to calm a storm over his failure to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for meddling in the 2016 U.S.

The Police say they are are seeking the public’s assistance in the identification of a male of East Indian ancestry whose head was reportedly ran over by a minibus this morning about 4 on Carifesta Avenue; the body is presently at the Lyken’s Funeral Home.

The Police today made a renewed appeal for help in recapturing two escapees from the Camp Street and Lusignan prisons in July of 2017.

(Trinidad Guardian) Long immigration lines in the arrival lounges at this country’s two major airports could soon be a thing of the past, after the Ministry of National Security, Ministry of Works and Transport and the Airports Authority of T&T yesterday launched a new automated border control system at the Piarco International Airport.

Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) has paid the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) “a few hundreds of millions,” Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia says and discussions are ongoing on how the remainder of its $3.8 billion tax debt will be paid.

Christopher Stanley, the youth charged with stabbing a man to death in Tiger Bay in 2015, was yesterday sentenced to 23 years and seven months in jail for the crime, which he said he committed after the now dead man tried to rape him.

An Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara (WCD) man was found strangled in his home early yesterday morning and police have said that an uncle has admitted to the crime.

Sixty-six-year-old Abdool Jamil was yesterday found guilty on two counts of raping a 10-year-old child.

A spanking new hotel was on Sunday evening officially opened along the main road of New Amsterdam by a young couple who both hail from the town.

President David Granger yesterday urged toshaos and other indigenous community leaders to use the annual National Toshaos Council’s conference as a vehicle for change and to deliver public services that will create more sustainable and secure livelihoods, and increased opportunities to reduce the inequalities between coastland and hinterland communities.

An overseas-based Guyanese is feared to have drowned in the Demerara River while jet skiing on Sunday afternoon and a search has been launched for him.

Following a multi-agency meeting yesterday, Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, has announced that the Immigration Department in Region One will within the week be reinforced to deal with the arrival of Venezuelans into Guyana.

The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) is seeking the public’s help to find a Good Hope, East Coast Demerara man, who is wanted for questioning about the recent discovery of almost 325 pounds of cannabis and cocaine in a boat at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.

Four persons are to be charged today with the murder of Westminster phone card vendor, Ron Mansfield, the police said last night.

Police have sent their file on the murders of Pandit Deonarine Liliah and his son, Gopaul, whose partially-decomposed bodies were found in their Campbellville home last Tuesday with multiple stab wounds, for legal advice on charges.

Following the discovery of several Ziploc bags filled with cannabis on Saturday morning in the vicinity of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, the police have been advised to institute criminal charges.

A 20-year-old man, accused of raping a child in 2013, yesterday pleaded guilty to the crime when he appeared before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Sexual Offences Court in Georgetown.

Two teenage boys were yesterday granted bail after they were accused of raping an 11-year-old girl.

Kerwin Clarke, Emmerson Campbell and Chandini Khan shone the brightest among the stars of local bodybuilding when the flagship National Championships was staged Sunday evening at Parc Rayne.

The trial of Richard Stanton, who is accused of murdering Patricia Sanasie in 2015, continued yesterday with the testimony of Detective Constable Samuel Headley, who conducted the initial investigation into the crime.

Michael Sampson, a Prashad Nagar man who is alleged to have fondled an underage girl, was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail after being found guilty of the crime.

Andre Russell makes his return to the West Indies One Day side that will play Bangladesh in three matches beginning in Guyana on Sunday.

Several persons are being questioned as the police continue to probe the one-week old discovery of skeletal remains, suspected to be that of a missing woman, at Thomas Island, Puruni River, in Region Seven.

Co-captain of the junior national squash team, Alexander Cheeks, is not at all disappointed that Guyana, for the second year running, finished behind Barbados in the teams category at the just-concluded Caribbean Squash tournament in Jamaica. 

Disconnection Crew was crowned the new Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’, Bartica Champion, edging Goal-Raiders 1-0 on Sunday at the Bartica Community Center Tarmac.

At least four persons were flown to Georgetown yesterday morning for the treatment of injuries sustained in a vehicular accident at Mahdia on Sunday evening.

The police say that two businessmen have been detained following allegations of assaulting a peace officer, damage to property, discharging a loaded firearm and obstructing the officers from executing their duties.

LONDON,  CMC – Scott Borthwick struck an exciting hundred but West Indies A’s seamers still managed to contain Surrey, on the opening day of their four-day contest at the Oval here yesterday.

Trevor Heyliger, the security guard who police say they intercepted with an unlicensed weapon and a quantity of ammunition in a vehicle he was driving last Friday, is now a remanded prisoner after being denied bail on charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies captain Jason Holder has shot to a career-best position in the ICC Test bowlers rankings and has broken into the top five on the all-rounders charts, for the first time ever.

PODGORICA, (Reuters) – Perched atop massive cement pillars that tower above Montene-gro’s picturesque Moraca river canyon, scores of Chinese workers are building a state-of-the-art highway through some of the roughest terrain in southern Europe.

KINGSTON, Jamaican, CMC– It may have taken 30 Test matches, but West Indies captain Jason Holder believes he is finally beginning to reach his full potential.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday launched its container scanner site, which Minister of Finance Winston Jordan said is critical in the fight against illegal trade.

TORONTO, Canada,  CMC – West Indies B faltered at the final hurdle, going down to the Vancouver Knights in the final of the Global T20 Canada on Sunday.

Smuggling of drugs and arms and ammunition, and prostitution are just some of the illegal activities that the border community of Kaikan, in Upper Cuyuni, Region Seven, is currently grappling with due to the presence of Venezuelans, according to Toshao Marlon Williams.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesteday that groups linked to Nicaragua’s government were using “unacceptable” lethal force against citizens, and urged an end to violence that has killed at least 275 people in months of protests.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque yesterday admitted he faces great challenges when he takes office next month and said while he is not a miracle worker, he will do all he can to push the nation forward and reduce the gulf between rich and poor.

HELSINKI, (Reuters) – Standing side by side with Vladimir Putin, U.S.

Ten-year-old Jonathan Saunders was recently announced as the top student for Region Four from the list of Special Needs children who sat the 2018 NGSA exams, according to a release from Region Four.

Twenty-one year old wheelsman, Romello Crawford is the only Guyanese cyclist who will be competing in the 2018 Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Games and is poised to make his presence and country felt when he takes to the track.

Canada-based CGX Energy Inc on Friday   announced its leading  sponsorship of the upcoming Green Guyana Expo and International Business Summit scheduled for the Ramada Princess Hotel and the National Stadium on October 19-22, 2018.

As the Guyana Cup, the largest horse race meet in the 592 draws closer, The Hand-in-Hand Mutual Fire Insurance Company Ltd is once again proud to be a partner and sponsor.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May won a series of votes in parliament yesterday, keeping her over-arching strategy to leave the European Union just about on track after bowing to pressure from Brexit supporters in her party.

As the investigation continues into the landing of a private chartered aircraft at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri last week, the four Venezuelan passengers who were onboard have been released, while the two Venezuelan pilots remain in custody.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba has started providing internet on the mobile phones of select users as it aims to roll out the service nationwide by year-end, in a further step toward opening one of the Western Hemisphere’s least connected countries.

SAN DIEGO, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge temporarily barred the U.S.

A Venezuelan national was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with having possession of two pounds of cannabis for trafficking.

Dear Editor, Reporters have asked for my comments on the Simona Broomes saga, but up till now I remained quiet on it largely because I did not want to become part of the personal attacks on the minister.

Fruta Conquerors, defending champion Guyana Defence Force [GDF] and Den Amstel secured contrasting wins when the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] Elite League continued on Sunday.

(Reuters) – A former official at a Venezuelan state-run electric company pleaded guilty yesterday to U.S.

(Barbados Nation) It has to stop! This is Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley’s clear message about the lawless behaviour and gun violence in society.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A Moscow court yesterday handed down 15-day jail sentences on four members of the Pussy Riot protest group who interrupted Sunday’s World Cup final between France and Croatia when they ran onto the pitch wearing fake police uniforms.

Trinidad and Tobago will be sending a team of 12 boxers and six officials to the Caribbean School Boys and Juniors Tournament scheduled from August 17-19.

Dear Editor, A sports bar in the Anna Regina area has been harassing residents with loud music far into the morning.

Guyana’s Miguel Wong and Nickolus Romain failed in their bid to qualify for the main draw of the 2018 Pan-American junior table tennis championships which was contested in the Dominican Republic after ending third and fourth in their groups respectively. 

Dear Editor, As I recall, in the late 1980’s the Jamaican Government undertook a comprehensive overhaul of its Public Service Agencies, and in the process made some of them more responsive and productive.

HONOLULU, (Reuters) – A blob of hot volcanic lava struck an ocean tour boat just off the Big Island of Hawaii yesterday, injuring nearly two dozen people in the worst casualty incident to date from the ongoing eruption of the Kilauea Volcano, authorities said.

(Jamaica Observer) Chinese seafood merchants have already begun buying lobster and fish from other countries as tariffs make American seafood too expensive, according to a recent article out of Beijing, China.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture.

President David Granger, last evening, hosted a reception for the Executive members and participants of the National Toshaos Council’s Conference 2018 at the Baridi Benab, State House. 

Dear Editor, Hon. Simona Broomes, Minister within Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources, is from my home town of Bartica.

The manner in which drugs and other materiel associated with the delivery of services at the state-run health care institutions in Guyana are acquired has long been the subject of animated public chatter that often alights upon the subject of the circumvention of tender regulations and excursions into what are believed to be optional corrupt practices.

At long last, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres has spoken out about the killing of at least 264 people in Nicaragua’s anti-government protests over the past three months.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Dillon Lucas was stabbed multiple times as he tried to protect his common-law wife from unwanted sexual advances from an older man outside a Debe casino on Sunday.

Tiger Bay and Linden unit Silver Bullets secured lopsided wins, when the 6th edition of the GT-Beer ‘Keep Ya Five Alive’ Streetball Championship, continued on Saturday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.