Daily Archive: Monday, February 4, 2019

(Trinidad Express) FOOTBALL coach Shakeem Darius appeared before the court charged after he allegedly French kissed a 14-year-old girl.

(Trinidad Express) After shooting six and killing one in Sealots, Port of Spain on Sunday night, a killer came back early today and killed another.

Stating that it is carefully following developments connected to the motion of no-confidence, the European Union (EU) today called on all stakeholders to uphold the constitution.

 (NBC News) Kristoff St. John, an Emmy-winning star on the long-running soap opera ‘The Young and the Restless,’ was found dead at his Los Angeles home over the weekend, authorities said today.

(Trinidad Express) A 16-year-old girl from Wallerfield committed suicide by poisoning after her mother took away her cellphone on Saturday.

(Jamaica Observer) Family members and members of the legal fraternity were yesterday left inconsolable following the retrieval of a decomposed body, strongly believed to be that of 65-year-old attorney-at-law William Hines, in a sinkhole on his farm here yesterday afternoon.

 (Reuters) – England have held a crisis meeting after a second humiliation by the West Indies in as many tests left the team worried by their poor form in a year they host the World Cup and the Ashes series against Australia, coach Trevor Bayliss said.

MADRID/PARIS, (Reuters) – Nine European nations joined the United States in recognising opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president today, heightening a global showdown over Nicolas Maduro’s socialist rule.

(Barbados Nation) THE CARIBBEAN UNITED masters football team has been thrown into mourning following the sudden death of player Miguel Nurse.

(Jamaica Gleaner) “I can understand that the death of a well-loved person, especially a political representative, whose life was snuffed out by criminal(s), can be heart-rending and a bitter pill to swallow, “commented Williams.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Director of Tourism Donovan White was at pains to reassure a Canada-based reporter that Jamaicans harboured no open hostility towards gay visitors during a press conference at Caribbean Travel Marketplace in Montego Bay last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Po­lice of­fi­cers moon­light­ing as “es­corts” and us­ing of­fi­cial ve­hi­cles to trans­port peo­ple from the pop­u­lar Soa­ka fete at O2 Park have come un­der fire from Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Gary Grif­fith.

Appearing at a campaign-style event for the first time since the December 21st no-confidence motion that felled his government, President David Granger yesterday said that the administration will exhaust all lawful processes to challenge the results and strongly signalled that he would lead the APNU+AFC coalition into the next elections.

Demerara condemned Essequibo to a record 358-run defeat in the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board Senior Female 50-overs Inter-County tournament at the Lusignan Community Centre Ground yesterday.

A Somerset, Essequibo Coast man was early yesterday morning fatally stabbed, allegedly by his nephew during a quarrel over a stolen cellular phone.

West Demerara champion FC Eagles earned their finals berth in the Frank Watson Memorial National U-15 Intra-Association Football Playoff, downing Upper Demerara winner Milerock and East Bank Demerara champs Timehri Panthers yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

A fire destroyed the homes of two families in a range house at Tucville Terrace, East La Penitence, yesterday morning, leaving them devastated as they contemplate their next move.

Guyana’s senior men’s national team and the U-17 and U-19 outfits used home turf to their full advantage and upstaged the visiting French Guiana teams when the Goodwill tournament was staged Saturday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary. 

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) stands by its assessment that Citizens Bank and other commercial banks in Guyana owe approximately $4 billion in corporation taxes.

Communications giant, Digicel, in collaboration with Banks DIH Limited and Edward B.

Chairman of the Alliance for Change, Khemraj Ramjattan says that if offered by his party, he would agree to replace Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo as President David Granger’s running mate, going into the next General Elections.

Saying that the conferral of ‘silk’ on attorneys should not be done at the discretion of the president, Senior Counsel (SC) Bernard De Santos on Tuesday urged that government apologise to attorney Timothy Jonas and afford him the honour forthwith.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) President Wayne Forde says that the Golden Jaguars have a once in a generation opportunity to qualify for the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup and is urging the fans support the team during their critical clash with Belize on March 23.

A steely performance by Juan Velazquez and Vance Harding yesterday ensured their participation at this year’s Beach Volleyball Olympic qualifiers as Guyana’s representatives. 

As the police in the Upper Corentyne area continue to investigate Friday night’s murder of a Crabwood Creek farmer, they are following leads that the incident could have been a ‘hit’.

Government’s statement that it will be business as usual despite Chief Justice Roxane George’s ruling on Thursday that the Cabinet had automatically resigned on December 21, constitutes a gross act of defiance, according to former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran Noting that the Chief Justice ruled that the no confidence motion was lawfully passed in the National Assembly by a 33-32 vote, and that the vote of Charrandass Persaud was lawful, Ramkarran, writing in his column in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, said that the Chief Justice granted neither a stay of execution nor a conservatory order which would have preserved the status quo ante.

Dear Editor, Attorney-at-Law Christopher Ram appears to be part of an organized group promoting an argument that general elections must be held by March 21, 2019.

The region’s premier amateur middleweights, Arthur Langelier of St Lucia and Guyana’s Desmond ‘Dynamite’ Amsterdam are once again on a collision course.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said military intervention in Venezuela was “an option” as Western nations boost pressure on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to step down, while the troubled OPEC nation’s ally Russia warned against “destructive meddling.”

Dear Editor, It is with great sadness that I learnt of the passing of Comrade Isahak Basir of Hampton Court, Essequibo Coast.

Defending champions, Berbice were rocketed to an eight-wicket win with their captain, Tremayne Smartt picking up a five wicket haul against Guyana Cricket Board Select Under-19 at Georgetown Cricket Club in the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board Senior Female Inter-County tournament yesterday.

Commissioner of Police Leslie James said that the accident he was involved in two Saturdays ago, in which two men were injured when a force vehicle transporting him collided with a truck, is not a ‘special’ matter and it will be investigated like any other.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Pentagon is sending 3,750 additional U.S. forces to the southwest border with Mexico for three months to support border agents, the Department of Defense said yesterday.

Fed up with late payments for their paddy and mounting production costs, many of Wakenaam’s rice farmers have shifted to cultivating plantain and coconut. 

PARIS (Reuters) – A French court has rejected an urgent request by environmental groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to deny oil and gas major Total permission to proceed with plans to drill off the coast of French Guiana.

Dear Editor, The confidence case before us is the first of its kind in this country.

Strike Team, Big Ballers, Mature Ballers, Ballers Empire, Hot Skull and One-n-Move secured contrasting wins, when the 2nd Annual Mocha Village Cup Street-ball Championship resumed at the Mocha Arcadia Community Centre.

Defending junior Calypso Monarch, Jovinski Thorne lost the crown on Saturday by a mere two points to Jamal Stewart who caught the judges’ eye with his song “Miss May’s Old Car Engine”, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).

(Reuters) – Grammy-nominated Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage was arrested by U.S.

Dear Editor, News is circulating that the Opposition PPP is searching for an Afro-Guyanese prime ministerial candidate. 

Although opposition-nominated commissioner Sase Gunraj on Saturday accused the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Secretariat of attempting to delay elections preparations by not providing requested work plans on Friday, the agency’s Public Relations Officer Yolanda Ward has maintained that they were always scheduled to be delivered today.

The Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) has brought forward their Phagwah Race meet from March 24 to March 17.

The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday said that repair work will begin on the Linden to Lethem road this month.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Major British businesses’ appetite to take on financial risk has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade due to fears of “the hardest of Brexits” and rising U.S.

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – A blistering half-century from Nida Dar and a three-wicket haul by left-arm spinner Anam Amin ensured that Pakistan avoided a whitewash by winning the third and final Twenty20 International against the West Indies at the Southend Club Cricket Stadium here yesterday.

Dear Editor, It was Sunday around lunch time when it happened.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Shock waves reverberated around the local political fraternity yesterday as news spread of the killing of Member of Parliament Dr Lynvale Bloomfield.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa expressed disappointment yesterday after the United States and other Western powers wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa urging him to tackle corruption, and said those countries had breached diplomatic protocol.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sex­u­al preda­tors, ban­dits, and tres­passers are cre­at­ing fear among fe­male se­cu­ri­ty guards of the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (MTS).

Thursday’s trifecta of decisions by Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George has further exposed the exiguity of the government’s defiance of the motion of no confidence which was passed against it on December 21, effectively ending its tenure and mandating that general elections be held in 90 days.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Windward Island Volcanoes expectedly secured a comfortable victory over Barbados Pride in their sixth round contest of the Regional Four-Day Championship at Kensington Oval here yesterday.

With many democratic institutions under threat across the globe – often by leaders with authoritarian or populist tendencies – we need to do more to strengthen checks and balances and protect citizens’ rights.

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(Trinidad Guardian) A 17-year-old sec­ondary school stu­dent who is on sus­pen­sion has been gunned down by an un­known gun­man.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ten­sions over the po­lit­i­cal col­lapse of Venezuela are con­tin­u­ing to rise af­ter the coun­tries of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) dis­tanced them­selves from the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS) Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al Luis Leonar­do Al­ma­gro and his sup­port of Venezue­lan Op­po­si­tion Leader Juan Guaidó.

Dear Editor, It is becoming increasingly clear that elections will be held sooner rather than later.