Daily Archive: Tuesday, June 18, 2019

President David Granger today said that his government will abide by the Caribbean Court of Justice’s (CCJ) ruling upholding the December 21, 2018 no-confidence motion.

Following its two rulings today upholding the motion of no-confidence on December 21, 2018 and declaring that the unilateral appointment of the GECOM Chairman Justice (rtd) James Patterson was flawed,  the CCJ will hear submissions on June 24 from both sides on the consequential orders to be made.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today ruled that the motion of no confidence of December 21, 2018 was validly passed.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today found that the unilateral process by President David Granger to appoint Justice (retired) James Patterson as Chairman of GECOM was flawed.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Boris Johnson got a fresh boost in the race to become Britain’s prime minister today when a another former rival in the race backed him to lead the country out of its Brexit crisis.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Michel Platini, the former head of European football association UEFA, was detained for questioning by French police today over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament to Qatar, a judicial source told Reuters.

(Trinidad Express) Southern Division police are searching for a man captured on surveillance camera stealing gold from a jewellery store at Gulf City Mall, La Romaine, on Saturday.

With ExxonMobil having found 12 operable wells in the offshore Stabroek Block, the Guyana government is concerned that the absence of a ring-fencing arrangement could negatively affect revenue earned from its explorations.

The police in ‘A’ Division are probing the death of a 60-year-old security guard of Cummings Electrical Company, who was found with a wound to his head, in a guard hut in Campbell-ville, where he had been on the night shift.

Two more youths accused of killing retired professor Pairaudeau `Perry’ Mars have pleaded  to man-slaughter charges and are now awaiting sentencing, pending the presentation of probation reports.

A 38-year-old cook has died and four other members of her family, including her husband, have been hospitalised after they fell ill over the weekend.

All of Demerara Distillers Limited’s (DDL) operations will be reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after a number of environmental infringements were observed by an EPA team during a visit, head of the agency Dr.

The body of a hire car driver of Adventure Village, Corentyne, was discovered just after lunch yesterday on the shoulder of the Corentyne Highway, while his car was found in a nearby trench.

(This is the fifth in a series of articles by Transparency Institute Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

As the opposition PPP/C maintains that it is open to an independent probe of the awards of offshore oil exploration blocks to small, unproven companies during its tenure in office, an internationally recognised forensic auditor is open to taking up the task.

Bank of Guyana Governor Gobind Ganga will be meeting with Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited today and he says it has to refund for all fraudulent activity on its Visa International Debit Cards.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), in an effort to promote prostate cancer screening and raise awareness of the disease, through a multi-agency collaboration, will be distributing vouchers to 150 underprivileged males to access screening and consultation services.

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Guyana’s economic growth was in 2018 strengthened with broad-based expansion across all major sectors but structural reforms including possibly “more liberal” immigration policies are needed to support economic diversification, and achieve inclusive and equitable growth.

A Guyanese man living in Connecticut man tried smuggling nearly three dozen live finches from Guyana through JFK Airport so he could sell them for use in high-stakes bird-singing competitions in New York, according to the New York Post citing federal officials yesterday.

Stabroek News was recently informed by one of its main sources that ranks within the ‘B’ Division’s (Berbice) administration are on the hunt for the persons who have spoken out to the media levelling allegations of corruption against a senior officer of the force, who is allegedly aided by several junior ranks within the division.

TAUNTON, England,  CMC – West Indies’ World Cup dreams lay in ruins here Monday after Bangladesh completed their highest-ever successful run chase to thrash the Caribbean side by seven wickets and leave them with a battle against the odds to reach the top four.

Moments after being recaptured following an escape while they were being brought to a city court, two men were charged with robbing a couple and one of them was sentenced to two-and-half years in jail after he admitted to the crime.

The Allianz Field in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be the setting for a history making moment tonight, when the Golden Jaguars make their maiden appearance in the CONCACAF Gold Cup against host nation and defending champion USA from 22:00hrs.

While Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has suggested that the Alliance For Change’s recent selection of a coalition prime ministerial candidate was ill-timed, newly-elected Vice Chairperson Cathy Hughes had defended the decision, while saying it was a necessary move.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and some 2 million other fans cheered the NBA champion Toronto Raptors yesterday in a victory celebration that united the nation, but the party was marred by a shooting that seriously wounded two people.

Shaquille Grant was yesterday morning discharged of the 2017 murder of Sophia bread vendor Andre Melroy Alexander, after Justice Navindra Singh upheld a no-case submission made by his attorney.

The police have been called in to investigate a suspected break-in at the office of Mayor of Georgetown Pandit Ubraj Narine.

Beacons etched their name on the coveted Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Bartica championship trophy, defeating Police 1-0 Sunday at the Bartica Community Centre tarmac.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday that U.S. authorities would begin next week removing millions of immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

A 59-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to stealing a gas cylinder.

Woman FIDE Master Maria Varona-Thomas cruised to a successful title defence as the curtain came down on the Guyana Chess Federation’s National Female Championships Sunday at the National Resource Centre, Woolford Avenue.

Dear Editor, From all the discourse in the public domain, the Government appears to be the not too unwitting victim of a series of misbehaviours perpetrated by what is known as the Special Purpose Unit (SPU) of NICIL, ever since its creation three or more years ago.

Carlos Petterson has returned to Guyana with one goal in mind.

An Inter-Agency Task Force for the crafting of an Urban Development Master Plan was yesterday launched, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt’s modern history, died yesterday from a heart attack after collapsing in a Cairo court while on trial on espionage charges, authorities and a medical source said.

Since the turn of the century (2001), children from the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) who are preparing to enter Secondary Schools have benefited from a Summer Camp and the Rose Hall Town Branch of Republic Bank is continuing its sponsorship of the event this year RHTYSC Secretary/CEO Hilbert Foster, MS, said this year’s Summer Camp will start July 15 and end August 9.

WASHINGTON/DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announc-ed yesterday the deployment of about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East for what he said were defensive purposes, citing concerns about a threat from Iran.

An accused thief is now a remanded prisoner after police told a city court that he escaped from custody.

Dear Editor, It is hoped this belated response was not in the interim construed as discourtesy and depriving myself of the right to set the record straight.

A part-time customer service representative was yesterday charged with driving dangerously, which resulted in an accident that left the victim confined to a wheelchair.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith on Sunday night confirmed that the board of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the South American country’s oil and gas company, has filed a lawsuit in relation to Kingston’s forcible takeover of its 49 per cent stake in local oil refinery Petrojam.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday cut hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, after Trump blasted the three countries because thousands of their citizens had sought asylum at the U.S.

Dear Editor, Every Guyanese must share the concerns raised by Professor Kean Gibson (SN 12/5/19) on the plague of corruption as it continues to ravage us.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Captain Jason Holder conceded yesterday that West Indies faced a “tough” path to the World Cup semi-finals, after producing a lacklustre display against Bangladesh and  suffering a disappointing seven-wicket defeat.

(Trinidad Guardian) A re­port car­ried by a pan-Latin Amer­i­can news or­gan­i­sa­tion, Panam Post, is stat­ing that Venezue­lan pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro has giv­en Rus­sia two gas de­posits near to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A man was granted his release on $70,000 bail yesterday after he denied a possession of cannabis charge in a city court.

There are some things about the proliferation of reports regarding the presence of narcotics (latterly it is the drug ecstasy that has been ‘making the running,’ so to speak) in schools that are deeply troubling.

Dear Editor, I want to share my experience at the Woodlands Hospital in Georgetown on Monday, 17th June 2019.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The largest-known U.S. uranium deposit will remain firmly under ground after the Supreme Court yesterday upheld Virginia’s ban on mining the radioactive metal, rebuffing a challenge backed by President Donald Trump’s administration to the 1982 moratorium.

The Guyana Football Federation [GFF] has inked a partnership with sports company Capelli Sport to serve as the entity’s official uniform supplier.