Daily Archive: Saturday, June 8, 2019

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico avoided the most extreme immigration concession sought by U.S.

Andaiye, rights activist, was today laid to rest. The funeral service was held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan woman was shot and killed early Saturday. Two men were involved in the killing.

(Trinidad Express) Just under a week after he casually walked out of Piarco International Airport despite being denied entry into this country, 29-year-old O’Shane Bailey has been held.

An elderly woman appeared before the court charged with failing to report a sexual act against a seven-year-old girl to the police.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico struck a deal yesterday to avert a tariff war, with Mexico agreeing to rapidly expand a controversial asylum programme and deploy security forces to stem the flow of illegal Central American migrants.

(Trinidad Express) A soldier and a police officer appeared before the court charged with maliciously wounding a DJ.

President David Granger yesterday announced that government would be seeking to resolve the tensions between the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), while ensuring that the company gets much needed funding in a timely manner to meet its needs.

Newly-appointed Senior Counsel (SC) Stephen Fraser yesterday emphasised the importance of a functioning Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to the country’s judicial system and added his voice to the numerous calls made for the body to be reconstituted.

An East Ruimveldt man was yesterday fined and ordered to undergo counselling after he told a city magistrate that he was treating a one-year-old relative’s asthma with a cannabis tea as well as urine.

In a surprise decision, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG) Professor Ivelaw Griffith has withdrawn his request to renew his contract.

Over the next three years, communities in regions One and Nine will benefit from an India-UN Development Partnership Fund (UNDPF) project geared towards a 10 per cent reduction of adolescent pregnancy within indigenous communities.

Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has resumed pumping water from the Kaituma River to supply residents after a four-week hiatus.

Recognizing that the weather in Georgetown is perfect for softball cricket, the Georgetown Softball Cricket League Inc.,

An Albouystown woman was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged in a city court with physically abusing a toddler, including burning her.

PARIS, June 7 (Reuters) – Before this French Open semi-final match-up it had been all about the dizzying numbers and statistics, but once great foes Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal stepped on to the Roland Garros centre court, all that mattered was both men’s preternatural ability to strike a small yellow ball.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian soccer star Neymar’s agents said yesterday that he and some of his sponsors had agreed to suspend some advertising campaigns following an allegation that he raped a woman in Paris last month.

Damian James, who admitted to stealing a radio and tape set from a housemate, yesterday happily accepted a two-month sentence for the crime.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic’s hope of winning a fourth straight Grand Slam title was in jeopardy at the French Open yesterday when rain interrupted his semi-final against Austrian Dominic Thiem.

Concrete products manufacturer KSM investments Incorporated has moved to the High Court to fight what it says is a decision by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to overestimate the value of its cement imports without any explanation and demand higher duties and taxes as a result.

Despite suffering a 1-0 defeat to hosts Bermuda on Thursday at the National Sports Centre, Golden Jaguars Head-coach Michael Johnson declared that the objective of the fixture was to garner a better understanding of the team ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Legal constraints restrict the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) from purchasing electricity from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) but the utility is working with government to find a solution, Chief Executive Officer Albert Gordon says.

The Georgetown Department of Education yesterday hosted a mathematics exhibition and walkathon as part of its efforts to ensure that pupils excel in the subject.

The Georgetown Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association (GCU&SA) training programme on the laws of cricket will get underway June 18.

Josh Jailall, of the Swami Pumanda Primary School, has won the Region Four Primary-level’s Spelling Bee competition.

Tiger Bay and Back Circle will face-off tonight at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, in the final of the Corona Futsal Championships.

Attorney Glenn Hanoman yesterday said he was not notified of the hearing on Thursday when the trial of his client, former Attorney-General Anil Nandlall, resumed in a Georgetown court.

The male and female 400m events could steal the show at this year’s Aliann Pompey Invitational (API) set for July 6 at the National Track and Field Centre.

Muammar Jabbar, who was wanted by police in connection with the 2013 murder of Tolasicy Marshall, in Albouystown, was arrested in Berbice sometime between Wednesday and Thursday, the force’s Public Relations Officer Jairam Ramlakhan has confirmed.

Hugh Ross Guyana’s most decorated muscleman, will be gracing the stage this evening at the NABBA World Championships in Northern Ireland.

Dear Editor, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh E. Jackson penned a letter on 06-Jun-2019 in SN where he stated that Jan Mangal (author of this letter) made unwarranted assumptions and arrived at foregone conclusions.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Shai Hope has described Thursday’s defeat to Australia as a “tough pill to swallow” but says West Indies would continue to play competitive cricket throughout the World Cup.

The partially decomposed body of an unidentified man was found floating in a trench aback Providence, East Bank Demerara yesterday.

BRISTOL, England, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s World Cup match against Sri Lanka was called off yesterday without a ball being bowled after persistent rain in Bristol.

Dear Editor, I would like to make some observations with respect to the stretch of road from the McDoom gas station to the arch at the end of Agricola.

Two police officers, who were recently injured in the line of duty, were on Thursday promoted by Commissioner of Police Leslie James for their bravery.

Petite Miss India Guyana 2019 Rashena Hanif was once a frail child who was frequently hospitalised, and who as a teenager was often made to feel embarrassed about her body type to the extent that she became depressed, but she was also a fighter as proven by her triumph just minutes into Monday morning on May 27.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Public Infrastructure Hon. David Patterson took to social media (Facebook) to vent his frustration about the positioning of the Vreed-en-Hoop to Kingston submarine cable; Patterson identified this positioning as a poor political decision by the PPP and as the culprit for this round of power shortages.

The Georgetown International Academy (GIA) will today stage Almost, Maine at the Theatre Guild in Georgetown.

TAUNTON, England,  (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Kane Williamson will struggle to read Indian Premier League (IPL) team mate Rashid Khan in Saturday’s World Cup match, Afghanistan skipper Gulbadin Naib predicted yesterday.

TAUNTON, England, (Reuters) – New Zealand coach Gary Stead denied his batsmen are vulnerable to spin bowling and said the 2015 finalists are ready for a slow-bowling onslaught in today’s World Cup match against Afghanistan.

Dear Editor, A matter which appears technical on the surface and pales into significance compared to headline grabbing news such as crime, corruption in high places and challenges in the budding oil and gas sector has gratefully, caught the attention of a section of the media.

For cooks, there are phases of life we experience that get reflected in our approach to food and cooking.

NEW YORK,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday he would contribute $500 million toward closing coal-fired power plants across the United States, in a clash with White House effort to revive a fossil fuel blamed for climate change.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Come mid-July, 150 persons will be out of work in St Thomas as manufacturing conglomerate Seprod turns off the lights at the Golden Grove Sugar Factory.

Transparency and accountability are paramount for a robust energy sector, Professor José Rinkenbach told a gathering last week Thursday when the University of Guyana (UG) hosted its latest Turkeyen and Tain Talks.

WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday there was a “good chance” that the United States would be able to reach a deal with Mexico over his demands that it curb the number of mostly Central American migrants crossing the southern U.S.

I have been on Instagram since 2013. I remember wanting to get it when I started blogging online.

Dear Editor, In 2004 Guyana produced 325,000 tonnes of sugar. At that time Booker Tate was running our industry on a management contract, then Robert Persaud became Minister of Agriculture in 2006 and shortly thereafter he terminated the Booker Tate contract in 2009.

LEICESTER, England, CMC – West Indies Women’s head coach, Henderson Springer, has lamented the lack of discipline exhibited in Thursday’s heavy loss to England in the first One-Day International, and says attitudes will have to change if the side are turn around their fortunes in the three-match series.

Farmers in the Mainstay/Whyaka Village, Region Two, are set to hold talks with Amazon Caribbean Guyana Limited (AMCAR) towards revitalising the pineapple industry, the Department of Public Information (DPI) has reported.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is reporting that the recently concluded first phase of its Dead Elector Removal Exercise identified 106,000 dead electors. 

Dear Editor, Reference is being made to Frederick Kissoon’s letter `UG unions have a moral obligation to debunk Lewis’s statement on my involvement’ (SN 7th June 2019).

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said yesterday that the opposition does not currently plan to join a new round of talks in Norway with representatives of President Nicolas Maduro, after mediation efforts collapsed last month without a deal.

Faydeha King emerged as the best talent when the Miss Earth Guyana Talent and Fashion preliminaries were held last Saturday night at the Theatre Guild.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite has criticised the poor standard of umpiring that marred Thursday’s 15-run World Cup defeat to Australia at Trent Bridge.

(Trinidad Express) An underground explosion in the city of Port of Spain yesterday morning triggered a national security alert over fears that someone had set off a bomb.

After recently being convicted and sentenced to 14 years in jail for manslaughter, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne resident Navindra Basdeo has filed an appeal as he contends that the verdict was “unreasonable” and cannot be supported by the evidence.

The nation mourns again. This time it is for a child who was killed in an accident a week ago.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Australia’s assistant coach Ricky Ponting expects India to select an extra fast bowler tomorrow to exploit the holders’ vulnerability to short-pitched deliveries seen in their scrappy win over the West Indies in the World Cup.

Throughout “Rocketman,” the new Elton John biopic with the stylised title of one of his most famous songs, I kept trying to think of a better name for the film.

KHARTOUM,  (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s prime minister yesterday urged Sudan’s military rulers and civilian opposition to exercise “bravery” in trying to agree on a transition to democracy after the worst bloodshed since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir.

Dear Editor, In a recent news report by Newsroom, Chairman of the GPL, Rawle Lucas, in reference to the blackouts, stated, “This is one child we must kill, I know people don’t like to murder but that one we have to end”.

In April 1989, university students in Beijing used the funeral of Hu Yaobang, a general secretary of China’s Communist Party (CCP), as a rallying point for protests against the government’s obsessive control of their lives.

Soca artiste Jumo Primo on Friday last launched the reopening of the former Weddy Weddy Night Club, now called 592 Spot and geared to promote live performances by local artistes and entertainment from local disc jockeys.

The disciplinary committee of the Medical Council of Guyana is still reviewing the findings of investigations into the deaths of three children, who died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) in January after being administered cancer drugs.

(Trinidad Guardian) Four days af­ter he was re­port­ed miss­ing, the body of 23-year-old Nicholas “Nicho” Ju­man was found over a cliff along the road to Mara­cas Bay yester­day af­ter­noon.

The report, ‘Lawyer for drug accused ex-cop wants minister as witness in extradition hearing,’ which appeared in our June 6th, 2019 edition, erroneously identified attorney Keoma Griffith as one of the attorneys representing the accused, Shaun Darcy Nebblett.