Daily Archive: Monday, September 24, 2018

Two films at TIFF this year – both inspired by true events – seemed preternaturally linked in their representations of race and racism in Europe.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Australian Stuart Law has quit as head coach of embattled West Indies just eight months before the start of the ICC World Cup in England, dealing a severe blow to the regional side’s preparation for the event and leaving authorities scrambling to find a replacement.

State Minister Joseph Harmon today officially announced that Cabinet recently granted its approval of a new Board of Directors for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), which will be chaired by agriculture expert John Dow.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) THE decomposing body of 42-year-old Tricia Farrow was found on Monday, three days after she went missing.

The Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 8.45 am today on the Cornelia Ida Public Road, West Coast Demerara, involving motorcar PVV 982 driven by a 21-year-old resident of Anna Catherina W.C.D

(JAMAICA OBSERVER) An enraged security guard who butchered his common-law wife and her teenaged daughter at their St James home yesterday morning later killed himself by driving over the Flat Bridge into the Rio Cobre in St Catherine, where he drowned.

(JAMAICA GLEANER) As violence against the island’s children rises to increasingly disturbing levels, National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the brutality that is beginning to emerge is particularly worrying.

Pre­pare—and pray. That’s the word from Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Kaz­im Ho­sein and munci­pal au­thor­i­ties yes­ter­day as Trop­i­cal Storm Kirk swept across the At­lantic, with T&T and neigh­bour­ing Wind­ward is­lands with­in the path of its ex­tend­ed cone—so far.

Tropical Depression Kirk will become a Tropical Storm within the next 21 hours and would be passing close to the Low Coastal Plain of Guyana on Wednesday September 26, 2018, the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) said early today.

The United States has granted Russian aluminium giant, Rusal a few more weeks to find a way to avoid sanctions but local workers remain worried and a task force set up to look into the matter has stalled though government says that it is taking steps to ensure their welfare.

Four persons were arrested and two of them have been charged after a large quantity of cocaine was seized from a vessel from Guyana, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) is not against a Trinidad and Tobago business presence here but believes that before oil agreements are signed with other countries, Guyana should have an established local content policy, its executive members contend.

Given that there is no evidence to show that for several years prior to 2014 the accounts of the Public Service Ministry (PSM) had been audited, former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran is calling on his successor to provide an explanation.

Curtis Dey (Trojan Cycle Club) took a stunning solo victory in this year’s Victor Macedo road race yesterday after attacking late and holding off his breakaway mates.

After decades, the Ashmins building on Hadfield and High Streets has been put on sale and owner Lennox John has cited personal reasons as one of the main factors for choosing to part ways with the store.

After two years occupying the controversial Sussex Street drug bond, the Ministry of Public Health has finally vacated the storage facility, a source confirmed yesterday.

Jamaica once again got the better of Guyana when this year’s Rugby America’s North (RAN) Championship final was staged yesterday in Barbados.

The usual teams dominated the second day of the Heritage Games with some spectacular display of skills on Saturday at the Everest Cricket Club ground.

A miner is hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was shot twice by a licensed firearm holder who was allegedly drunk in front of a bar at the Mahdia Landing, Potaro, early yesterday morning.

President of the Guyana Football Federation, Wayne Forde, has ‘defended’ the Federation’s intent to persist with the Elite League amid calls for it to shelved.   Football pundits have recently criticized the League’s failure to attract local support for matches while it is also argued that it is failing to produce quality players and results.   Forde, however, while he acknowledges the League’s shortcomings, shares a different view and argues for its continuation. 

With opportunities now opening up due to Guyana’s advantageous position in the emerging oil and gas sector, it should begin pressing Trinidad and Tobago to remove its artificial barriers to trade, says commentator Ralph Ramkarran.   

Bingo Spartans are the 2018 Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) female Under – 19 champions after they completed a final round win over St.

The West Indies Rum and Spirits Producers’ Association (WIRSPA) last week announced the launch of an initiative to promote responsible consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Attorney Anil Nandlall on Friday argued that the Rice Assessment Committee is not properly constituted and therefore cannot conduct an investigation into the refusal of Hope Estate rice farmers to accept the tripling of the rental fee for land they occupy.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Former West Indies Test captain Denesh Ramdin is hoping to use next month’s Regional Super50 as an opportunity to continue his impressive comeback.

After a four-day break in the Guyana Cricket Board 50-over Franchise League, the fifth round is set to begin today across Berbice and Demerara.

A bandit escaped with over $400, 000 in cash and jewellery on Saturday night after he held two persons at gunpoint and robbed them.

Dear Editor, The Government is seemingly being ‘careless’ with one of the largest, most politically sensitive industries in the country – sugar – and in some instances, unnecessarily so.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbadian opener Hayley Matthews says notching her maiden international hundred on home soil was an “unbelievable” feeling and hopes the achievement can be the first of several triple figure scores.

-‘self-restraint would do the trick,’ Ramjattan says Almost three years after President David Granger promised measures to deal with alcohol abuse, a policy appears to be staggering to life but there is no clear idea when it would be fully developed and implemented.

Dear Editor, I thought that this was going to be troublesome, but does everything in this country have to be this hard, this insoluble? 

Vendors who were removed from the Kitty Market in 2016 are seeking answers regarding when rehabilitation works on the market would be completed and they would be able to return.

Dear Editor, Please allow me to respond to the letter titled, `CHI provides affordable cardiac care for Guyanese, new treatment protocols have seen 10-fold drop in death rates and halving of hospital stay’.

Barbados’s Keithland King’s pre-fight boast of a second round stoppage came to fruition on Saturday night on the main event of the ‘Young Guns-The Proving Ground’ card.

Two motorcycle bandits robbed a man of almost $80,000 in cash and jewellery on Saturday after they held him at gunpoint in Lamaha Springs, the police say.

Dear Editor, During rice harvesting and rice land preparation times, we the residents and road users are put in a precarious situation of pollution along the East Bank Essequibo roadway, particularly from Vergenoegen to Orangestein.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor believes the recent drawn series against South Africa has highlighted the need for her side to improve their consistency.

LIVERPOOL, England, (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party will vote this week to keep a second Brexit referendum on the table if Prime Minister Theresa May fails to pass her plan to leave the European Union through parliament, media reported.

Dear Editor, It is with much dismay I read our Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman’s response to the possible closure of RUSAL’s operations in Guyana.

(Reuters) – Tiger Woods was moved to the brink of tears after capturing his first title since 2013 with a two-stroke triumph at the Tour Championship in Atlanta yesterday that proved he was far from washed up at the age of 42.

On September 19, 2018, STEMGuyana signed a pact with the International Youth Robot (IYR) Association to be the prequalifying body for organizing the annual qualifier national robot competition among Guyanese primary and secondary school-aged student-teams to represent Guyana at the International Youth Robotics Competition. 

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Police and supporters of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega clashed in Managua yesterday with demonstrators calling for the release of people imprisoned during recent protests, leaving at least one person dead, authorities said.

Dear Editor. I was looking at the height notice on the Overpass by the Harbour   Bridge.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The university professor who has accused Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, of sexual assault will testify before a Senate panel on Thursday about her allegation, her lawyers and the committee said yesterday.

The University of Guyana (UG) Cricket team will play in the finals of the Cyril Bonar T20 competition currently being played in Paramaribo, Suriname after they rebounded from an opening-round defeat.   UG’s opening campaign saw them going down to Suriname Spartans, who they will play in the finals, by three wickets in a ten-overs a side encounter.   UG after winning the toss, elected to bat and were dismissed for 65 with Ray Newton top scoring with 15 while Ramjan gabbed 3-5 for Spartans who reached 69 for seven to complete the win. 

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman on Saturday expressed satisfaction with road works at Kwakwani, Region 10.

Swan, off the Linden/Soesdyke Highway, an Amerindian community that is home to approximately 415 people, held its heritage day celebrations yesterday.

Guyana’s female table tennis contingent who are currently participating in the 60th edition of the Caribbean Table Tennis Federation Senior Championship, in Jamaica, began their quest for gold with a convincing win, yesterday.   The women’s team which comprises Chelsea Edghill, Natalie Cummings, Trenace Lowe and Jody Ann Blake defeated Martinique 3-0 in their opening group two encounter.   The other countries in that group are the Dominican Republic and Jamaica who will be battling Guyana for the number one and two seeding after their round-robin group matches for the opportunity to advance out of the group.

Nomination Day on Friday for Local Government Elections (LGE) on November 12 was a seminal development as it set in train consecutive elections for grassroots democracy in under three years.

Dear Editor, My observation of the manner in which submission of Candidates’ Lists and contingent documents relative to the upcoming Local Government elections were prepared and submitted to Returning Officers at three Registration Centres, forces me to conclude that our aspiring “Village Leaders” and their handlers  were terribly out of their depth.

LONDON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. cable giant Comcast scored a big win in the scramble for media assets by beating Rupert Murdoch, and his backer Disney, in the battle for Sky with an eye-watering $40 billion bid.

By Felician Medino Abraham Felician Medino Abraham is from Santa Rosa Moruca.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, arrived in New York yesterday for his first trip to the United States, where he will denounce the decades-old U.S.