Daily Archive: Wednesday, April 3, 2019

As part of the reformation process for a more modernised and efficient Guyana Police Force, 40 ranks from within ‘D’ Division on March 27, 2019 were trained to use Portable Video Recording kits (Body Cameras), a statement from the Force said today.

(Trinidad Newsday) A Felicity mechanic who allegedly tried to steal two cars from murdered kidnap victim Sheldon Sukhdeo has appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate charged with two counts of uttering a forged document.

President David Granger today said that the resignation of four MPs who are dual citizens won’t take effect until all of the requisite constitutional steps are followed.

(Trinidad Express) PRISONER Matthew Woods has been sentenced to three months’ hard labour after his failed escape attempt from custody on Monday morning at the Scarborough Port.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Superintendent Vernon Ellis, commanding officer for the St James Police Division, says his team is not singling out Chinese business operators for special protection, albeit that members of the Chinese business community in Montego Bay have been targeted in several recent robberies.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Defence attorneys are this morning expected to carry out their cross-examination of the Crown’s second witness, who is said to be a former member of the Uchence Wilson Gang which allegedly carried out several robberies and other crimes across at least seven parishes.

(Trinidad Express) What at first seemed like an All Fool’s Day prank, turned out to be a robbery at a store in Princes Town on Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia will sell a superyacht allegedly bought with stolen funds from state fund 1MDB to casino operator Genting Malaysia Bhd for $126 million, in the first major asset sale by Kuala Lumpur to recover billions lost from the fund.

 (Reuters) – Former captain Alastair Cook believes England have an “outstanding chance” to lift the World Cup on home soil, having built a squad full of proven match winners.

(Trinidad Guardian) A plot by pris­on­ers to kill five prison of­fi­cers has been un­cov­ered by the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team.

After announcing that President David Granger had accepted the resignations of four APNU+AFC coalition parliamentarians with dual citizenship yesterday, the government said their ministerial portfolios would be taken up by the members of Cabinet who previously acted in their stead, while signalling that they would have new roles in the administration.

Gavin Gill, the Corentyne taxi driver who used a car to hit his wife down and then proceeded to stab and chop her to death on Saturday morning, yesterday requested to see the woman’s face “one last time” when he appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court to face a murder charge.

Faced with a second retrial after a successful appeal of a prior murder conviction, Tyrone Rowe, called ‘Cobra,’ yesterday opted to throw himself at the mercy of the court and copped to a manslaughter charge for the 2010 killing of Troy Collymore.

Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they were charged with the murder of Sumintra Dinool, the elderly Albouystown businesswoman who was found dead in her home in 2014.

Bartica’s oldest resident, 100-year-old Lucille Vanderhyden Moseley, is now dead after a fire of unknown origin gutted her home around midnight on Monday.

Two persons have been arrested in connection with Monday’s armed robbery of businessman Selson Prescott, who was shot and robbed of millions of dollars as he was on his way to a city bank on Regent Street, Georgetown.

The Government of Guyana on Friday received a US$20 million loan from the World Bank to support capacity building for Petroleum Resources Governance and Manage-ment.

Marc Angoy, who in 2015 had opened fire on his ex-lover Shelly Norton’s Eastville Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara home, killing the woman’s one-year-old granddaughter as a result, was yesterday sentenced to 14 years behind bars.

Attorney Anil Nandlall has written to Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, demanding that GECOM refrain from proceeding with the “unlawful and unconstitutional” house-to-house registration exercise.

Daniesha Harris, a housewife who police allege threw a bag of cannabis out a window after panicking when ranks showed up at her house, was yesterday charged with trafficking can-nabis.

Sherod Duncan has been removed from his position as General Manager of the Guyana Chronicle.

Guyana recorded their third straight win after defeating Windward Islands by 18 runs in the fourth round of the Cricket West Indies T20 Blaze last night at the National Stadium, Providence.

CARICOM’s Competition Commission (CCC) has “reached out” to the local Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) following an assessment of the impact the proposed sale of Scotiabank assets in nine Caribbean territories is likely to have on the regional banking sector.

Guyana national football club champions Fruta Conquerors are scheduled to depart local shores today for Curacao to compete in the 2019 CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield Championship.

A 19-year-old labourer died on Monday evening after he was shocked while reportedly connecting electricity illegally to his Airy Hall, Mahaicony house.

Former Guyana Football Federation [GFF] President Christopher Matthias, proprietor of Federal Express Shipping, donated 21 balls to Tucville unit Fruta Conquerors to aid in their preparation for the CONCACAF Caribbean Shield Championship.

Police believe that the perpetrators responsible for the death of a West Coast Berbice pensioner may have been known to the woman.

Tournament favourites Water Pant suffered their first loss in the Banks DIH Limited Inter-Department tapeball cricket championships, losing by 21 runs to traditional giants Soft Drink Plant on Monday.

As part of several planned initiatives for Region Nine, close to four thousand residents of the Rupununi, (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo) will soon benefit from improved road connectivity.

The annual Hamilton Green Inter-Ward nine-a-side football tournament will kick-off on Sunday from 15:00hrs at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground.

As the Ministry of Public Health seeks to diagnose the illness that led to the death of a Guyana Manganese Incorporated (GMI) worker and the hospitalisation of 13 others, samples taken from them have been sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for additional tests.

An afternoon fire yesterday reduced the Region Seven Regional Democratic Council (RDC) stores building to ashes and the losses are said to number in the tens of millions.

Reigning Cricket West Indies Super50 Champions, Barbados inched closer to completing the double with the addition of the T20 Blaze title after defeating Trinidad and Tobago by seven wickets in the penultimate round yesterday.

In a totally one-sided affair, Jamaica defeated the Leeward Islands by 10 wickets in the fourth round of the Cricket West Indies T20 Blaze at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday she would seek another Brexit delay to agree an EU divorce deal with the opposition Labour leader, a last-ditch gambit to break an impasse over Britain’s departure that enraged many in her party.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday that Prime Minister Theresa May had not moved far enough in a first round of crisis talks aimed at breaking the domestic deadlock over Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Two persons were on Monday afternoon detained  by the police after a high speed chase along the Industry railway embankment ended in the discovery of an unlicensed firearm and several rounds.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Australia bowling coach Troy Cooley has no plans to carry on the role full-time after this year’s Ashes series and expects to head back to his usual job at the national cricket academy after plotting England’s downfall.

Child abuse victims are oftentimes left on their own to deal with the severe trauma of their experiences and even families believe they can just `bounce back’ without any long-term impacts.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc yesterday became the first major oil and gas company to announce plans to leave a leading U.S.

The regional administration of Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), last week, handed over $500,000 in items to the Moraikobai Village Council in support of the village’s tourism drive.

VILA-REAL, Spain,  (Reuters) – Barcelona’s Lionel Messi came off the bench in his side’s hour of need to inspire the Liga leaders to battle back from 4-2 down in stoppage time to snatch a remarkable 4-4 draw at struggling Villarreal yesterday.

Dear Editor, Great first step Mr. President!  I want to acknowledge your courage and to encourage you to take some further steps that could set in train a great revolution in the political-social-economic climate of and prospects for Guyana.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday sought to quell a crisis that threatens his chances of re-election, expelling from party ranks two former Cabinet members he said had undermined the ruling Liberals.

JAIPUR, India, CMC – Neither West Indies left-hander Shimron Hetmyer nor Barbados-born pacer Jofra Archer made a big splash, as Rajasthan Royals clinched their first victory of the Indian Premier League in dramatic fashion with a seven-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore yesterday here.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Michel Temer was indicted yesterday on corruption charges brought by prosecutors who said he took part in a bribery scheme related to the Angra 3 nuclear power plant complex on the coast near Rio de Janeiro.

The Guyana Elections Commission yesterday received multi-million dollar bids for capital items and accessories.

Dear Editor, The issue of mining in the Marudi area continues to be a huge problem and concern for most of the people in the South.

PANAMA CITY, Panama, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago’s Shivana Inalsingh has been appointed the director of the World Boxing Association’s Women’s Championships Committee.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump took a step back yesterday from his threat to close the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) A loud round of ap­plause and cheers of prais­es and grat­i­tude erupt­ed from the bas­ket­ball court at the Im­mi­gra­tion De­ten­tion Cen­tre (IDC) in Aripo yes­ter­day when Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young shared a ray of hope to the Venezue­lan de­tainees telling them that they may soon be freed and al­lowed to work in T&T for one year soon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two more sus­pects in a mul­ti-na­tion­al pros­ti­tu­tion ring in west Trinidad, which was bust­ed by po­lice two months ago, have ap­peared in court for hu­man traf­fick­ing.

Dear Editor, A year ago, I reinforced the fact that, “When you come from a small country like Guyana, you should always have an outward outlook.” 

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal has courted controversy again, despite only recently being brought back to the international fold following a two-year absence, after breaching a team curfew ahead of the fifth one-dayer against Australia.

Dear Editor, It was very gracious of Mr. Clement Rohee, a notable international statesman and a political official, on March 30, 2019 in a letter to Stabroek News `Those who claim that the PPP was/is ‘not a model of electoral purity’ must provide incontrovertible evidence to justify their case’ to comment on my letter of March 26, 2019 `The PPP was not a model of electoral purity’. 

Dear Editor, Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo is playing a very dangerous and divisive game in this society and is being called on to stop it.

ALGIERS,  (Reuters) – Algeria’s ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned yesterday, succumbing to six weeks of largely peaceful mass protests driven by youth and pressure from the powerful army against his 20-year rule.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia has opened a training centre in Venezuela to help the country’s pilots fly Russian-made military helicopters, Russian state-owned industrial conglomerate Rostec said on Monday, Moscow’s latest gesture of support for President Nicolas Maduro.

(Cultural day presentation to the Pan African Movement: Guyana) I thank the Pan African Movement of Guyana for inviting me to say a few words on the general theme: ‘In the footsteps of Kofi: referencing the Grenadian revolution of 13th March 1979’.

After being elected as Cricket West Indies (CWI) President, two Sundays ago, Ricky Skerritt declared that the immediate focus of the new administration would be rejuvenating the high performance centre, governance reform and finding a permanent West Indies Head Coach.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago Prime Minister, Dr.

Dear Editor, December 21st, 2018, for various reasons, will go down as one of the most historic days in Guyanese history.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The man suspected of fatally shooting Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle in a personal dispute was arrested in a Los Angeles suburb yesterday, a day after authorities named him publicly, police officials said.

Ayasia May LaFleur is the proud owner of a new, semi-furnished home at the New Prospect Housing Scheme, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.