Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 31, 2018

The Ministry of Public Telecommunications today said that cable TV company E-Networks has no licence for the laying and landing of a subsea cable system.

Police are probing a fatal accident which occurred about 9.15 last night on Good Faith Public Road, ECD, involving mini bus BTT 5273 driven by a 59 year old man, and pedal cyclist Ricardo James, 17, a labourer , of Lot 12 Recess Village, Mahaicony, ECD (deceased).

Three years into the 11th Parliament, the opposition People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) yesterday won its first vote in the House after two members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) abstained on a motion to grant two employees of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) duty-free concessions for vehicles at 2000-cylinder capacity (CC).

A vehicular collision along the Bee Hive Public Road, East Coast Demerara, claimed the lives of two young persons on Sunday.

Minister of Citizenship,  Winston Felix, yesterday said plans are in motion for the setting up of a homestead settlement area for the 260 confirmed Venezuelans, who are occupying areas in Barima-Waini (Region One).

Four men were yesterday charged with trafficking over 250 pounds of ganja, which Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) agents intercepted during an operation on the East Coast of Demerara last Saturday morning.

Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Harry Gill was yesterday reprimanded and referred to the National Assembly’s Privileges Committee for criticising the rulings of Speaker Dr.

By a majority vote, a 12-member jury yesterday found former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) member Allister Woolford guilty of fatally shooting his friend, Devon Howell.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, Jul 30, CMC – Fit-again all-rounders Marlon Samuels and Andre Russell have returned to the West Indies Twenty20 side while talisman Chris Gayle has been rested, in a 13-man squad named to face Bangladesh in the three-match Twenty20 International series starting here Tuesday night.

Another section of the roof of the Stabroek Market wharf collapsed yesterday, leaving vendors once more in fear for their lives.

Four Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) staffers at Soesdyke are counting their losses after a mid-morning fire razed their housing complex yesterday.

As the West Indies head into the three-match T20 series against Bangladesh, their skipper Carlos Brathwaite is confident his unit can come out on top.

Kennard Jabar, one of the four men charged with the robbery of the Bank of Baroda branch at Mon Repos two years ago, was yesterday freed of the charge.

Patanjalee “Pur” Persaud is among the favourites to contest the Crown Mining/Parsun Motors Emancipation Day golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club tomorrow.

LONDON, CMC – Rising batting star Shimron Hetmyer’s heavy scoring in the recent one-day series against Bangladesh has seen him jump a massive 77 places in the ICC batting rankings.

The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) has lost a significant sum of money, two Sony flat-screen televisions and several documents following  a series of robberies.

The Berbice Cricket Board has expressed frustration with the decision of Cricket West Indies not to approve the Roy Fredericks Cup T20 competition and to debar national players from playing in the competition.

Three days after being freed of aiding in the trafficking of 11 kilogrammes of cocaine at Pomeroon, Essequibo River, four Colombian nationals were yesterday fined for overstaying in Guyana.

Following Adrian Hinds’ exemplary performance in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Inter-County Under-19 tournament, his local club, Transport and General Sports Club is throwing its support behind the young wicket-keeping/batsman.

Following an embarrassing defeat of a motion to grant duty-free concessions to employees of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), Chairman of the committee of appointments Dr George Norton yesterday chose to heed the advice of his colleague Cathy Hughes and withdraw a motion to have the members of the Rights of the Child Commission (ROC) approved.

Four exciting quarterfinal matches will be staged this evening as teams jostle for semi-final berths in the 6th edition of the GT Beer/Keep Your Five Alive Street-ball competition at the National Gymnasium.

The abandoned car found in Industrial Site, Ruimveldt last Friday morning along with several items, including the driver’s licence of suspected robber Ian Forde, was a rental, according to Commander of ‘A’ Division Marlon Chapman.

Left-arm orthodox spinner Zachary Jodah bowled superbly to see Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) race to a 47-run win over Everest Cricket Club in their Under-17 showdown on Saturday.

The July 8th incident involving Minister in the Ministry of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, her driver and two security guards will be discussed at today’s cabinet sitting following which government coalition partner, Alliance for Change (AFC) will be able to give an official statement, the party’s leader Raphael Trotman said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday said it was revoking visas of Nicaraguan officials connected to a crackdown on protesters, while President Daniel Ortega said in Managua that he wanted to strengthen dialogue with opposition groups.

Diamond United, Agricola, Diamond Upsetters and Timehri were among the winners when the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) / Juicy Juice Under-13 League continued Sunday at the Timehri Red Ground.

The distribution of supplies for Venezuelan migrants in Barima-Waini continued on Friday and Saturday in the communities of Powaikuru, Kamwatta, Imbotero and Smith Creek, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

The body of a 60-year-old man was yesterday  found in a trench near to where he lived in Friendship, East Bank Demerara, the police said.

(Reuters) – The first European Championships, a new multi-sport event, gets under way on Thursday with Glasgow hosting the combined event of various continental championships.

NEW DELHI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than four million people left off a draft list of citizens in northeast India yesterday have effectively been made stateless, campaigners said, likening them to the Rohingya minority driven out of Myanmar.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – South African paceman Dale Steyn believes this year’s Australian ball-tampering scandal could be viewed as a “cry for help” because the balance between bat and ball in cricket has become so skewed in favour of the batsmen.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Counting began in Zimbabwe yesterday in the first election since the removal of former president Robert Mugabe, a watershed vote that could pull a pariah state back into the international fold and spark an economic revival.

The International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) has performed another 23 surgeries on infants and adults, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at the North Korean factory that produced the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, a senior U.S.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Doping is a global menace and there should be no discrimination in the tough new anti-doping rules announced by the sport’s governing IAAF at its council meeting in Buenos Aires last week, a senior Kenyan athletics official said  yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Captain Gary Griffith is the next Commissioner of Police.

Julian Sargeant, the man who went berserk on Saturday and attacked his mother-in-law, common-law partner and her five-year-old niece is likely to appear in court today where he will face several charges including attempted murder.

Dear Editor, The assertion by Newsroom in its article “Attorney General, others to pay `no tax whatsoever’ under amendment to the AML/CFT law” dated July 27th 2018, that the members of the Committee “will be exempt, under section 7G of the Bill, from taxations” is erroneous and misleading. 

First Lady,  Sandra Granger, yesterday afternoon commended  34 women for successfully completing the Care for the Elderly workshop.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to put the brakes on a lawsuit filed by young activists who have accused the U.S.

(CPL) Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Irfan has been called up by the Barbados Tridents for the upcoming Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL), which runs from August 8 to September 16.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Andrew Wheatley says he decided to step aside to allow for the issues surrounding the management of the Energy, Science and Technology portfolio to be ventilated.

Dear Editor, We join annually with communities across the world in marking the moment in which the crime of chattel enslavement was confronted and uprooted from our existential realities.

WELLINGTON/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Just over a decade ago, deadly riots in the capital of Tonga, Nuku’alofa, destroyed much of the small Pacific nation’s central business and government districts.

SOFIA, (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s former world championship silver medallist Damyan Damyanov died on Sunday at the age of 39, becoming the latest member of a once-mighty Bulgarian weightlifting team to pass away at a young age.

(Barbados Nation) The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has made it harder to import extra-regional cement into Barbados at a reduced cost.

Dear Editor, The discovery of oil by ExxonMobil in 2015 has put Guyana on a trajectory to receiving significant revenues.

(Trinidad Express) A Private attached to the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment appeared before Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle, in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court last Friday, charged with the July 21 murder of Kareem Wilson.

Den Amstel continued their impressive displays in the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] Elite League, downing New Amsterdam [NA] United 4-0 on Sunday at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

(Reuters) – CBS Corp’s board left Chief Executive Leslie Moonves in his post yesterday as it discussed sexual harassment claims against him and took steps to select an outside counsel to lead an independent investigation into the matter, the company said in a statement.

Minister of State, Joseph Harmon (fifth from right) yesterday met with the executive members of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) at his office at the Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP).

It is not in the nature of newspapers like the New York Times, on those occasions when they must pay a measure of editorial attention to countries like Guyana, long arbitrarily grouped as ‘banana republics,’ to fail to litter their offerings with ill-informed and open ridicule, sparing no feelings.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International aid groups are failing to tackle “horror” sexual abuse and harassment in the charity sector, Britain’s aid watchdog said on Tuesday after the revelation of sexual misconduct by aid workers sparked global outrage this year.

When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently estimated that Venezuela’s inflation will reach 1 million percent this year, many analysts jumped to the conclusion that President Nicolás Maduro’s days in power are numbered.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to the news item captioned `Teixeira mulling run for PPP/C’s presidential candidate’ (SN Jul 30).

The Enmore Community Center Cricket Club will host Blairmont Centre Cricket Club as the two face off for the inaugural Freedom Cup on Wednesday in recognition of Emancipation celebrations.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Twenty-one-year-old Tyesha De Sousa was stabbed to death by a man who chased her down in the heart of Port-of-Spain before killing her on Sunday.

Dear Editor, APNU+AFC is presently spending more than $15M per month to store a used, outdated model CT scanner which they over-valued at about $12M.