Daily Archive: Saturday, October 20, 2018

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Jarrel Noble, 22, who was fatally shot early this morning after he allegedly attacked a security guard at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo.

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) There has been a catastrophic level of flooding across many communities in Trinidad overnight.

Government is concerned about the reports emerging from the ongoing Com-mission of Inquiry (CoI) into the management of City Hall but will await its completion and the submission of its recommendations before taking any action.

Travis Evans, the murder accused who was one of the three inmates who escaped from a holding bay of the Lusignan Prison early on Monday morning, is now back in custody.

A city constable was stabbed in the face yesterday morning during an altercation at City Hall with another man who fled but was subsequently shot and captured.

Durn Hunt, the Corriverton man who police say threw his girlfriend into a drain and then stabbed her on Monday, was formally charged with her murder yesterday.

The fifth annual Smalta Girls Pee Wee Primary Schools Football Championships was officially launched yesterday at the National Library.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Trophy Stall Franchise, Ramesh Sunich, has been able to garner sponsorship from a Canadian business for next weekend’s Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association Guyana Softball Cup competition.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday launched a commemorative stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations between Guyana and Brazil.

Essequibo Franchise player, Neiland Cadogan capped off a splendid all-round performance to see Imam Bacchus Sports Club score the highest total of the weekend against Cotton Field Strikers while Reliance Hustlers, Queenstown Sports Club and Affiance Sports Club recorded wins in the Central Essequibo T20 tournament.

Contractors hired to construct buildings for the Ministry of Public Health in Region One as far back as 2016 failed to complete the projects despite being advanced more than 50% of the contract sums, according to the 2017 Auditor General’s report, which urged that efforts be made to recover all the money overpaid.

All systems are in place for tomorrow’s start of the Hamilton Green 9-a-side Inter-Ward/Village Knockout Cup which is being held to commemorate the 84th Birth Anniversary of the former Mayor of Georgetown.

New Delhi has formally informed Georgetown that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will no longer be visiting Guyana as planned in early December due to commitments in his home country, Minister of State Joseph Harmon announced yesterday.

Government yesterday announced that regulations for the management of Guyana’s wildlife trade are completed and will soon be gazetted.

St. Stanislaus College A Team emerged champions at last weekend’s Marian Academy Scholastic Chess Club competition held at the school’s auditorium, a release from the organisers stated.

Two former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) privates were yesterday charged with the rape of a 26-year-old Essequibo woman.

The seventh edition of the Digicel Cancer Awareness Cycle event will pedal off tomorrow on the streets of the capital.

Five of the six men who were apprehended on Tuesday night following an armed robbery at a Parika bar were yesterday remanded to jail on multiple charges of armed robbery.

Turfites get ready, the Kennard Memorial pre- Diwali race meet is on tomorrow.

Of the $7.5 billion in supplementary funding for which it is currently seeking parliamentary approval, government has earmarked $2.451 billion or a little more than 30% for the completion of severance payments to laid-off sugar workers.

Kobras and Pepsi Sonics secured wins in the first and second divisions respectively when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association [GABA] League Championships continued on Thursday.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will meet next week with the city’s two primary garbage contractors – Puran Brothers Waste Disposal Inc and Cevons Waste Management Inc – to settle its outstanding debts, Solid Waste Management Director Walter Narine says.

Dear Editor, Last Thursday, the Court of Appeal of Guyana upheld Chief Justice (Ag) Roxane George’s decision that President David Granger acted in compliance with article 161(2) of the Constitution when he appointed Justice James Patterson as the Chairman of GECOM.

Following the end of the group stage, the round of 16 section in the Courts Pee Wee Primary School Football Championship will commence today at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The prosecution yesterday closed its case against accused drug traffickers Stephen Vieira, Tazim Gafoor, his son Nazim Gafoor, and Sherwayne De Abreu, who are on trial over the $550 million in cocaine that was found by authorities in dressed lumber last year.

Dear Editor, Your Saturday October 13, 2018 edition reported on an extant court matter involving the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) and the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI).

The Inter Services Annual Swimming and Athletics Championships for 2018 will commence tomorrow and end Friday.

A promoter was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with being in possession of 2.5 pounds of cocaine for trafficking.      Wyette Amsterdam, 31, was read a charge which stated that on October 17th, at Stabroek Market Square, in the vicinity of the Lodge bus park, he had 1.160 kg (equivalent to 2.5 pounds) of cocaine for trafficking.

Dear Editor, Pakistan has just finished defeating Australia by a huge margin in the second of two test matches, the first of which Pakistan also dominated.

(Reuters) – Seamer Mohammad Abbas tore through the Australian batting order, claiming his second five-wicket haul of the match as Pakistan sealed a 373-run victory in the second and final test in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

Dear Editor, It is important that a, response be made to Sunday’s Kaieteur News’ cartoon and “The Baccoo Speaks” (KN:14th October, 2018).

A construction worker is now free on $250,000 bail after he yesterday denied raping a 15-year-old girl.

(Reuters) – Joe Denly has not ruled out the possibility of opening the England batting in the test series against Sri Lanka next month as he targets his first international appearance since 2010.

Chocolate truffles, French macarons and chocolate-dipped strawberries are just some of the  heavenly tasting delicacies made by Indra Mekdeci and her hardworking team.

DUBAI/WASHINGTON/GLENDALE Ariz.,(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said yesterday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fight inside its Istanbul consulate and said it had fired two senior officials over the incident, giving an account that U.S.

Opposition Leader President Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday said the huge hikes in tolls announced by the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) are not in keeping with the 20-year contract he signed with the company while he was president in 2006 and he called on the government to press the company on how it arrived at the figures.

LIMA/MADRID  (Reuters) – A fugitive Peruvian Supreme Court justice accused of leading a criminal group that infiltrated the country’s judicial system was captured in Madrid yesterday and held on remand by Spanish authorities.

Dear Editor, The 2012-2016 Country Programme Evaluation report for Guyana is out, and the IDB wasted no time outlining the lethargic and slothful pace of project implementation by the current administration.

Hi Everyone, Thick and creamy like milkshake, Mango Lassi is not simply a drink, it is like dessert in a glass.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Usman Qadir, the son of Pakistan spin-bowling great Abdul, was named in a Prime Minister’s XI to face South Africa yesterday, inching a little closer to his goal of one day representing Australia.

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, should remain a unit of the central bank, the government said on Friday.

Dear Editor, First workers’ severance was referred to ignominiously as ‘haemorrhaging the economy”.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica’s national men’s football team has been told to replicate the efforts of the women and qualify for the 2022 World Cup.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine President Mauricio Macri is used to seeing bad poll numbers as he struggles to drive through an unpopular austerity program that has cut fuel subsidies, raised taxes and sent utility bills soaring.

AMRITSAR, India,  (Reuters) – A commuter train travelling at high speed ran through a crowd of people on the rail tracks in northern India killing at least 59 people yesterday, state officials said, making it India’s worst rail disaster this year.

Guyana is to host the headquarters of one of the region’s newest institutions, the Partnership Initiative for Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), which is to be relocated from Trinidad and Tobago.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – As the West Indies women prepare to defend their Women’s T20 title next month, head coach Hendy Springer believes the team’s upcoming warm-up games will be crucial to their preparation.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Crunchy and tasty, yes, but could carrots also strengthen cement and cut carbon dioxide emissions for the building industry?

Dear Editor, The President’s power must not be unlimited. These are quotes from the 6-1 majority decision of CCJ,  that  Act No 17 of 2001 of Guyana’s Constitution was validly enacted. 

A 31-year-old shopkeeper is now nursing a gunshot wound to his left hand after he was attacked on Thursday evening.

Dancer and leader of the Ishara Dance Troupe Shivanie Latchman was revealed as the new Mrs India Guyana during a ceremony that saw ten contestants sashed for the Miss India Guyana pageant on Sunday last, in front of a sold-out audience at the M&M Banquet Hall. 

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Proposals made by Brazil’s far-right presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro present a serious threat to the country’s environment that could lead deforestation “to explode,” a group of non-government organizations said on Friday.

Amandla Stenberg was one of a handful of actors who attended the Toronto International Film Festival this year as the star of two films.

It has been about ten years since I have been attending our local observance of the Maafa at the Seawall Bandstand in Georgetown.

Dear Editor, I would like to say a thank you to some Guyana Fire Service members.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pop superstar Rihanna declined an offer to perform at a Super Bowl halftime show because she supported former National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his protest against racial injustice, according to media reports.

A report just published by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns, with unusual candour, that unless global warming is drastically reduced by 2030, our climate will undergo a wide array of catastrophic disruptions.

A Little Poet’s World invites readers to enter the world of ten-year-old Aurelia Sue-Ann, a sixth grader of Mae’s Schools.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure yesterday urged residents against removing distribution cables attached to lantern posts following recent thefts in West Demerara and East Bank communities.

(Trinidad Express) Days after she told a story of demons in her head, a 40-year-old woman died from ingesting a poisonous substance on the streets of Penal on Thursday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners took a giant step towards qualifying for the semifinals of the Regional Super50 when they defeated the Barbados Pride by 125 runs in their crucial Group B clash at Kensington Oval on Thursday.

KOCHI/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A senior leader of India’s ruling party warned on Friday that protesters in the southern state of Kerala would take the law into their hands if officials attempted to let women enter a hill temple at the centre of a raging controversy.

Ever since I migrated, I have had a hard time breaking up with summer.