Daily Archive: Thursday, January 3, 2019

(Jamaica Observer) Reports have surfaced out of Nicaragua that a Jamaican boat captain is now dead and buried in that country, after he and two others were rescued by locals after spending 22 days adrift in waters off the northern Caribbean country.

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland today refused to review his decision that a motion of no-confidence was passed against the APNU+AFC government on December 21st.

Guyana Goldfields Inc. today announced the appointment of  former US Ambassador to Guyana Perry Holloway as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Affairs, effective as of January 1, 2019.

(Trinidad Newsday) DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard, SC yesterday said senior magistrate Indrani Cedeno could have requested additional information from police, before she decided to fine a man $17,000 for having 3.9 kilos of cocaine at his St Augustine home.

(Trinidad Express) Three men were killed Wednesday night, bringing to five the number of homicides in the first two days of the new year.

(Trinidad Guardian) The first day of 2019 had bare­ly end­ed, but crim­i­nals had man­aged to snuff the life of an­oth­er vic­tim with the mur­der of Cou­va fish­er­man Samuel Sookdeo on Tues­day night.

The opposition PPP/C has written to Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland, contending that today’s sitting of the National Assembly is unconstitutional and therefore should not be held.

Toshao of Kurutuku, Region Seven, Solomon Lewis, was beheaded on New Year’s Day, while his son was critically injured, after they intervened in a domestic dispute between Lewis’ daughter and her husband.

Den Amstel was crowned the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] ‘Stag Beer’ Super-16 Champions, defeating home side Buxton United 2-0 yesterday at the Buxton Community Centre ground.

Three Senior Superintendents of Police have been promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner by the Police Service Commission (PSC).

Government late yesterday warned of what it claimed is an opposition PPP/C plot to disrupt today’s sitting of National Assembly, a claim that the party’s executive member Anil Nandlall dismissed as “simply comical and the figment of the government’s paranoid imagination.”

Eagles United clinched their maiden Upper Demerara Football Association [UDFA]/‘GT-Beer’ Championship, downing Net-Rockers 2-1 on Monday at the Mackenzie Sports Club [MSC] ground, Linden.

The Port Mourant Training Centre (PMTC) Volleyball Club on Saturday last held its annual awards ceremony where the club recognised some of its 2018 standout performers.

A Vilvoorden, Essequibo Coast labourer was fatally stabbed on Old Year’s night, after he was attacked by the drunken relative of an acquaintance.

The A New United Guyana (ANUG) party is set to be launched in another two weeks’ time at a press conference at which announcements will be made, according to one of its founders Ralph Ramkarran SC.

The executives of the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) have kick-started 2019 with a bold initiative by sending a National male under-19 Hockey Team to participate in two championships in Trinidad and Tobago. 

The calendar has flipped to 2019 and one of Guyana’s premier musclemen, Kerwin Clarke, has plans as massive as his quads for the new year.

Following another round of chemotherapy for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, President David Granger returned to Guyana from Cuba on Tuesday but up to press time, no information about a confirmed meeting between him and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo had been communicated to the PPP.

The newly-installed Levi Nedd-led Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) is set to swing into action on Sunday as they host the federation’s inaugural Diamond Mineral Water male and female Beach Volleyball Tournament at the Marriott Beach Front. 

Dear Editor, In my letter of December 29, 2018, I focused on the interpretation given by Attorney-at-Law Mr.

A Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne driver succumbed to his  injuries at the Skeldon Public Hospital yesterday, after he slammed into a parked tractor along the Number 67 Village, Corentyne Public Road.

The presidential candidate for the People’s Progressive Party to contest the upcoming general elections will be named before the month ends and not by the end of this week  Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo told Stabroek News that according to the timeline “around the third week in January” the Central Committee of the party should vote for the candidate.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Chronicle headline of Tuesday, first day of January, 2019 was astonishing, proclaiming that the passage of the No-Confidence Motion was nothing. 

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Glenn Blakeney, a hard-hitting former Bermuda batsman known as the “Master Blaster”, has died after complications from a prolonged struggle with cancer.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Reigning champions West Indies have qualified automatically for next year’s Twenty World Cup in Australia.

Dear Editor, I am constrained to draw to the attention of interested persons the provisions of Article 64 of the Guyana Constitution which apparently have escaped the attention of competent authorities.

Seven hundred and six ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have been promoted by Chief of Staff Brigadier Patrick West.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Controversial Englishman Richard Pybus is poised to become the new West Indies head coach.

A water ambulance costing approximately $11 million was yesterday handed over to the Region Seven community of Bartica by the Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence.

Dear Editor, I have witnessed the controversy over the issue of majority votes in the National Assembly of Guyana.

Dear Editor, I was not  surprised to learn of a new political party being formed.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed supporting a return to democracy in Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua with Brazil’s new right-wing government yesterday, in a joint effort against what he called authoritarian regimes in Latin America.

MELBOURNE, Australia, MC – Ex-West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo starred as Melbourne Stars thrashed Melbourne Renegades by seven wickets in a high profile clash in the Big Bash League here New Year’s Day.

Security guard, Jermaine Bristol, who was last August charged with the murder of his girlfriend, was yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court.

The Black Bush Polder man accused of fatally stabbing a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer on Sunday evening in Philippi Village, Corentyne, yesterday surrendered to the police in Berbice.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The prosecution has dropped its case against the three policemen who were indicted on one count of murder in relation to the shooting death of Andrew Bisson in 2011.

Kawhi Leonard scored a career-best 45 points — including 19 in the third quarter — and gathered six rebounds to help the Toronto Raptors defeat the visiting Utah Jazz 122-116 Tuesday night.

Dear Editor, It is almost 2 weeks into that 90-day period!

Dear Editor, When I was a child growing up in the late 1980s in the tiny Georgetown community of Tucville Terrace, there was the eldest son of a man we called Palla Walla, a young boy, mid-teens, known for his insanity, for his wild ideas and stupendously false facts.

CARTAGENA,  (Reuters) – The United States is deeply concerned about an increase in coca cultivation in Colombia, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday, but will work with the Andean country to cut production of the raw material for cocaine in half by the end of 2023.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa are to keep up their pace barrage of Pakistan’s frail batting line-up as captain Faf du Plessis said that fast bowler Duanne Olivier will be retained for the second test at Newlands starting today.

Bail was granted for a salesman yesterday after he was accused of having in his possession, 41 grammes of cannabis.

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – New Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued an executive order yesterday making the Agriculture Ministry responsible for deciding on lands claimed by indigenous peoples, in a victory for agribusiness that will likely enrage environmentalists.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fit-again West Indies Test captain, Jason Holder, is one of seven current West Indies players named in a full-strength 13-man squad for the high-profile third round clash in the Regional Four-Day Championship against four-time reigning champions, Guyana Jaguars, starting tomorrow.

A North East La Penitence family is thankful to be alive after a fire suspected to be electrical in origin gutted their apartment during the wee hours of New Year’s Day.

Dear Editor, The job of an Attorney General the world over, is to uphold the law and the constitution.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru Attorney General Pedro Chavarry yesterday reappointed two lead prosecutors he had dismissed from a high-profile graft probe after the decision sparked widespread opposition and a threat by President Martin Vizcarra to suspend him.

The Italian Renaissance philosopher and statesman, Niccolò Machiavelli, described as an immoral cynic, a genius strategist and a wicked man inspired by the devil, famously maintained that politics has no relation to morals.

It may be that the final figures will be tweaked a bit, but it is estimated that for Christmas 2018, shoppers in the United States spent roughly US$1 trillion, while those in the United Kingdom spent over £2 billion.