Articles published on Wednesday, February 20, 2019
(Trinidad Express) She had no idea this was going to happen. Analysts Keshala Mahabir and Ishan Gosine will tie the knot this year after Gosine got down on one knee and proposed to his sweetheart, Mahabir last night at 519 Restaurant at the C-3 Mall, San Fernando.
Convicted murderer Mark Royden Williams along with his co-accused Sherwin Nero were today acquitted of the 2007 murder of Cove and John resident Kumar Singh called `Mango Man’.
(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old man has been charged with murdering Parliament clerk Mariana Moonisar and the wounding her father.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition is trying to convince ruling Socialist Party officials to join a transition government, shifting focus as it seeks to unseat President Nicolas Maduro, who has clung to power in the face of growing international pressure and U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Moruga man who climbed a 200-foot cell tower, singing soca and performing acrobatics has been taken to hospital for observation.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Five persons, including two children, were seriously injured yesterday morning in a three-vehicle collision along the Montpelier main road, which also left several other persons nursing minor injuries.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The social media pages of Jamaican athlete Asafa Powell have been overflowing with congratulatory messages following his weekend marriage to Canadian model, Alyshia Miller.
(Trinidad Guardian) Popular doubles vendor Dhroop Jagessar was chopped to death at his business place on Monday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 70-year-old Marabella manm accused of commiting two sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl, has been granted $100,000 approval bail.
(Jamaica Observer) FOUR months after the Jamaica Observer highlighted his plight of not having a birth certificate, Raheem Powell is finally a registered Jamaican citizen.
-PPP calls for international intervention By majority decisions that saw Chairman James Patterson use his casting vote, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has determined that it will advise President David Granger that the 90-day constitutional deadline for general elections cannot be met and will continue with its approved work plan for the year, including a national house-to-house registration process.
Chief Labour Officer Charles Ogle yesterday said the Department of Labour of the Ministry of Social Protection is awaiting the response of the management of RUSAL’s Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) on two proposals that were presented at a meeting yesterday on the current industrial action at the company’s Kwakwani mining operation.
The plane that crashed on the West Bank Demerara on Monday evening had reported a fuel emergency, according to the civil aviation authority and rescuers from the army had to cut through thick vegetation to get to the site.
Following reports of grave mismanagement taking place at the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Police Commis-sioner Leslie James yesterday hinted at the strong possibility of him intervening to have the matter sorted out.
Two men from Georgetown were yesterday remanded to prison in relation to the attack which was carried out last Thursday on a Chinese national businessman at Springlands, Upper Corentyne, while the suspected architect of the plot was released on station bail after alleged interference.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Captain Jason Holder has stressed the “clinical” execution of bowling plans as his inspired West Indies seek to build on their stunning Test series win with further success, when they face world number one England in the opening One-Day International of the five-match series here today.
Distinguished law professor Rudy James, who taught in Guyana and in Africa for many decades, passed away on Monday in the United States, where he had gone to seek treatment for an illness sometime last year.
With Guyana set to depart local shores today to compete in the FIBA AmeriCup Qualifiers in Colombia, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation [GABF] has officially announced their 12 member roster for the championships via a press release.
The first trial of Nezaam Ali, the Muslim scholar charged with nine counts of rape, has been postponed until March 7th, 2019, following a request by defence counsel Stanley Moore for a new date.
Ramesh Narine spurred Mike’s Wellman to the Masters’ Over-40 title while Grill Masters beat Regal All-Stars to take the Open title in the annual Republic Cup last Sunday at the Everest Cricket Club ground.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is to meet with diplomatic representatives from the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union (EU) tomorrow.
Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of Rohan Persaud, the Grove, East Bank Demerara man who was found stabbed to death last week.
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has named its 14-member squad to participate in the Guyana Cricket Board Inter-County Under-15 tournament scheduled to commence next week.
PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday shut the maritime border with nearby Dutch Caribbean islands ahead of an opposition effort to bring in humanitarian aid from foreign territories including neighbouring Curacao despite the protests of President Nicolas Maduro.
Dear Editor, In a letter published in the Stabroek News on February 7th headed `Small Business Bureau contracts for training raise serious procurement concerns’, Bishop Juan Edghill claimed to have received information on “suspicious” transactions at the Small Business Bureau, but never sought to verify the context of the information received or the motive of the person or persons who availed the information to him.
The water supply to several schools in New Amsterdam and other areas was disconnected yesterday as the Region Six administration owes the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) some $61 million in payment for water supplied to institutions which fall under its control.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Monday unveiled Bermuda-based insurance company, Colonial Group International (CGI), as the title sponsors of the Regional Super50 domestic championship.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas yesterday urged the U.S.
Dear Editor, Briefly. Two men have recently passed on who earned my respect.
MONACO, (Reuters) – World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic crowned a winning return to the courts after surgery with the Laureus sportsman of the year award on Monday, while American gymnast Simone Biles won the sportswoman of the year prize.
A witness yesterday testified that murder accused Colin Alleyne revisited the Montrose neighbourhood where he allegedly murdered pensioner Danrasie ‘Carmen’ Ganesh on the day after the crime.
Dear Editor, We the stall holders/owners of East Ruimveldt market seek to highlight the plight that affects our daily bread at the aforesaid market.
Within the last two months, there have been four execution-style killings, three of which remain unsolved.
ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Imran Khan said yesterday Pakistan would retaliate if India attacked in response to a bombing in the disputed Kashmir region, which India blamed on Pakistan.
Dear Editor, I am closely monitoring the political situation in Guyana.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The market value of Jamaica’s sole oil refinery Petrojam has dropped by nearly US$100 million in the past 12 years, newly appointed Energy Minister Fayval Williams has revealed According to Williams, a valuation conducted in 2006 by an international firm using globally accepted standards placed the value of the 55 year-old refinery at US$126 million.
PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will be chasing history and a shock series victory when they play hosts South Africa in the second and final test at St George’s Park tomorrow.
LIVERPOOL, England, (Reuters) – Bayern Munich showed all their Champions League experience and quality organisation as they held Liverpool to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their last 16 match at Anfield yesterday in a game of few chances and little drama.
Dear Editor, The comments of Professor Duke Pollard published on the 17th February, 2019, in the state-owned newspapers, Guyana Chronicle, under the caption `CJ misdirected herself’ are not only offensive to the rules of our society and the legal profession as it offends the sub judice rule, but it can also result in Professor Pollard being brought before the Court for Contempt because it can be deemed to substantially prejudice or interfere with the outcome of the pending case before the Court of Appeal to determine the validity of the no confidence vote on 21st December, 2018, and the application by the government for an interim stay therefor.
(Trinidad Guardian) The inability of the police to quickly find foreign language translators has led to the temporary release of three Chinese men suspected of child prostitution.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont progressive whose 2016 White House campaign garnered fervent grassroots support and pushed the Democratic Party sharply to the left, said yesterday he would again seek the party’s presidential nomination in 2020.
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams SC., said he is confident that just as ‘good triumphs over evil’ the APNU+AFC Government will win against the December 21 vote of no confidence in Parliament.
Dear Editor, Workers employed at the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) need the public’s support.
Last Friday, the owners of the thirty-two teams in the National Football League (NFL) took the very significant decision to settle a nearly two year collusion lawsuit with the former San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Colin Kaepernick.
(Reuters) – Caster Semenya has released a list of experts she will call in her appeal hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) this week in her fight against regulations aimed at lowering the testosterone levels of hyperandrogenic athletes like her.
(Barbados Nation) Businessman George Reginald Ivan Parris has been remanded to HMP Dodds.
Saying that it is still awaiting “a position” from the Ministry of the Presidency on the alleged recall of Senior Counsel (SC) status on attorney Timothy Jonas, the Alliance for Change (AFC) is refraining from commenting on the president’s right to deviate from the recommendations made by the judiciary.
DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – A prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the “Ivory Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court yesterday for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants, weighing nearly 2 tonnes, to Asia.
The late eminent political theorist Samuel P Huntington claimed that, ‘Elections, open, free and fair, are the essence of democracy, the inescapable sine qua non’, and this is essentially what the PPP and its supporters have always had in mind.
