Articles published on Wednesday, October 3, 2018
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) National Security Minister Stuart Young has called a media conference to provide an update on the investigation into the shooting death of Acting Senior Superintendent of Prisons Wayne Jackson.
Guysons Oil and Gas Services and Guysons Engineering today held a media briefing to announce that the companies have met the ISO 9001:2015 certification requirements by the International Organisation for Standardisation.
The Ministry of the Presidency today condemned false articles online pertaining to President David Granger.
They Police say they are investigating the murder of 28 year old Shafiyq Forrester of 197 Sarran Street, Grove Squatting Area, East Bank Demerara, whose body was discovered in a drain outside of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court about 07:00 hour on Sunday September 30 last.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Tears flowed down Candice Chambers’ cheeks yesterday and with a weak wave of the hand, she signalled to the Gleaner team to talk to her mother at their home in Oliver Gardens, May Pen, Clarendon.
Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) adviser Dr Sam Sittlington yesterday told investigators and prosecutors that too much time is being wasted on preparing criminal case files, which fail to hold up in court.
President David Granger has said he would like to improve his relationship with Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, given its importance for domestic policy, although he believes that his cordiality has not been reciprocated.
Justice Jo-Ann Barlow yesterday ‘threw the book’ at David Alexander for his brutal rape of an 8-year-old girl, who had to be hospitalised afterward, saying that his case was the “worst of the worst” and the acts perpetuated by him were the types for which a life sentence was made the maximum penalty.
Cabinet yesterday discussed the impact of US sanctions on Russian aluminium giant Rusal and it has started to examine the way forward, such as a replacement for the firm or the shipper of its bauxite, Oldendorff Carriers.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Fast bowlers Kemar Roach and Alzarri Joseph have been handed all-formats contracts but short-format opener Evin Lewis has snubbed a white-ball offer, in the 2018/19 retainer contracts announced by Cricket West Indies on Monday.
A miner died in a pit cave in at Mowasi Backdam, Konawaruk, Potaro on Monday evening, resulting in Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman yesterday ordering an immediate enforcement operation to address the increase in mining-related deaths.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Windward Islands Volcanoes will launch the defence of their Regional Super50 title when they clash with a star-studded Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, in the tournament curtain-raiser at Queen’s Park Oval here today.
Four Guyanese, including a husband and wife, were recently held at the John F.
Heimraj Rasul got the better of Khalid Gobin 6-2, 6-4 when the sixth annual Bakewell junior lawn tennis tournament got underway over the weekend with a number of exciting contests at the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s Diamond Court and the National Racquet Center.
The 14th edition of the Hand-In-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance 11-stage cycling programme is set for the inner circuit of the National Park, Thomas Lands.
The police in ‘F’ Division are currently on the hunt for the suspect/s who brutally chopped a 51-year-old miner to death sometime between Sunday evening and Monday morning near Puruni Landing, in Region Seven.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) announced on Monday that it is on track to achieve its 68,045-tonne target for the second crop.
A Guyanese woman, who was deported from the United States just over 20 years ago, is now facing up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to illegally re-entering the country.
With the aim of qualifying from a daunting group featuring El-Salvador, Guatemala and Curacao in the CONCACAF Under-20 football tournament, Guyana will attempt to secure the services of 10 overseas-born and based players.
The rice miller responsible for shipping the rejected containers of rice to Panama has accepted blame for the error, Head of the Guyana Rice Exporters and Millers Association (GREMA) Rajendra Persaud said yesterday, while noting that the body is awaiting the return of the containers in order to ascertain the extent of the situation.
Rose Hall Town Jammers clinched the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association [BABA] ‘Karibee Rice’ Championships by defeating Canje Knights 40-31 on Sunday at the Rose Hall Court.
Just over a year after the killing of Fazal Shaheed, who was fatally shot during a robbery at Freeman Street, East La Penitence, two youths were yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court for the crime.
Senior Magistrate Leron Daly yesterday asked that an investigation be carried out based on the testimony offered by a policeman when the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the attempted murder charge against Maryann Daby continued.
With the second round of lymphatic filariasis Mass Drug Administration (MDA) campaign now underway, education remains key to getting patients to accept pills, says Dr Fabu Moses, the National Coordinator for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis campaign.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Head coach Stuart Williams expects West Indies batting star Marlon Samuels to play a seminal role with the Windies B unit, as they contest Group A of the Regional Super50 which bowls off today.
Two contracts, totalling US$8,878,102.47, were signed on Monday for the construction of the Westminster Secondary School, on the West Bank of Demerara, and the Good Hope Secondary School on the East Coast of Demerara.
Dear Editor, On my recent visit to the Police Headquarters in Brickdam where I was pursuing the enforcement of a warrant, I was very surprised to see the lack of infrastructural investment in the police’s facilities.
The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs yesterday received bids from automotive companies for the supply of All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs).
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Fast bowler Shakera Selman believes the enhanced team chemistry in the West Indies side will play a key role in their defence of the Twenty20 World Cup title in the Caribbean next month.
Dear Editor, The recent hubbub that has surfaced about the contentious leasing of a Sussex Street Wharf by the ‘King of the City’ to a shipping company whilst the municipality is not the bona fide owner of that property, speaks to the exploitation, duplicity and bullyism that occurs on a daily basis at City Hall, and is the mere tip of the iceberg of many such improprieties that exist within that institution.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India have the perfect opportunity to find a solution to their top-order batting woes before their year-end series in Australia when the world’s top-ranked side host two tests against lowly West Indies, starting tomorrow.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Monday began a six-week training programme for approximately 139 potential customhouse brokers.
(Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday allegations of sexual misconduct against his U.S.
(Trinidad Express)The Trinidadian man charged with attempting to steal an American Airlines jet at Orlando Melbourne International Airport will be deported to Trinidad, placed on a US “no-fly” list, and barred from returning to the United States.
Starr Computer Inc. last Thursday donated a Computer Smart Lab to the Information Technology (IT) department of the Ptolemy Reid rehabilitation Centre.
Dear Editor, For the past two weeks, rice farmers from the upper Hague settlement rice cultivation area have been making demands for drainage of their rice fields through our main irrigation canal, which has been a disadvantageous request to those of us at the lower end of the settlement because the irrigation canal passes through the entire settlement from south to north.
PARIS, (Reuters) – American Brooks Koepka is “heartbroken” to learn a tee shot of his that struck a spectator at last week’s Ryder Cup in France has reportedly left the woman blinded in one eye.
Video evidence was yesterday shown to the court when the preliminary inquiry into the murder charge against Kerwin Dos Santos, George Hope and Kacey Heyliger, who are accused of killing America Street money changer Shawn Nurse, continued before a city magistrate.
(Reuters) – There could be up to 4 million Venezuelan migrants living in Colombia by 2021 if the situation in the socialist-run country worsens, Colombia’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, estimating the cost at some $9 billion.
Dear Editor, As part of its Crime Prevention Strategy, the Guyana Police Force is hereby releasing to the general public, crime prevention tips.
(Antigua Observer) A police prosecutor accused of kidnapping a 13 year old girl and having sex with her on two occasions in 2016, walked free yesterday after the child said she did not want to proceed with the case and or to relive the incidents.
MANCHESTER, (Reuters) – Manchester United were held to a 0-0 draw by Valencia in a dour Champions League Group H clash yesterday which piled more pressure on their under-fire manager Jose Mourinho amid reports linking former Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane to his job.
(Reuters) – At least 34 migrants have died in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean, which 26 people survived, the U.N.
A Linden woman is now a remanded prisoner after police say she was found with just over a pound of cannabis at Bartica.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany’s former world super-middleweight and light-heavyweight champion Graciano Rocchigiani has died aged 54 in southern Italy after being hit by a car while out walking, officials said yesterday.
Dear Editor, I am disgusted and angered by the recent replacement of the head teacher of South Amelia’s Ward Nursery School in Linden.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Barrington Whyte, the husband of the woman district constable who was killed in a domestic dispute on the weekend, has surrendered to the police.
Last Friday, just eight days after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) voted to reinstate the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), the Canadian newspaper, The Toronto Star, broke a story that the most famous doping incident in Olympic history, the Ben Johnson scandal, appears to have been constructed around a series of questionable laboratory procedures.
(Reuters) Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Tuesday that investigators have determined that hackers did not access other sites that use the social networking site’s single sign-on in a massive cyber attack that the company disclosed last week.
Dear Editor, I again have to remind the public, the authorities and the persons pretending to function in the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority that since a legal challenge essentially addresses the legality of the Broadcast Authority and is sub judice in the Guyana Court of Appeal, unless it is heard, there can be no functioning Broadcast Authority.
Emergency repairs of sink holes along the Den Heuvel, East Bank Demerara Road are due to start today, according to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.
Our May 4, 2016 Stabroek News column (SN), focused on institutional trust and citizen engagement in Guyana.
Ms. Volda Lawrence, the Minister of Public Health, when speaking to a gathering of overseas Guyanese in the United States last week, stated that Guyana and Caribbean countries should stop complaining about the impact of the brain drain of nurses.
The Indian High Commission of Guyana is inviting persons to participate in the Bharat Ko Janiye online quiz, which is being organised and hosted by the Ministry of External Affairs in India.
