Daily Archive: Friday, September 13, 2019

Wall Street businessmen have been exploiting the working class and the economic system for years.

Facial recognition cameras will only be deployed at the official ports of entry and not on the streets, according to a release today from the Ministry of Public Telecommunications which also said that the safe city system will not violate anyone’s fundamental human rights.

Under pressure over a series of gaffes, US 2020 presidential front-runner Joe Biden confused Guyana for the African nation of Ghana while speaking at a campaign event, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police’s Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau is reporting that it arrested three members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force between Monday and Thursday over alleged breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act.

Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall this morning ruled that the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) which recommended disciplinary action against Town Clerk Royston King, resulting in his sacking, was unlawfully established and all of its decisions are null, void and of no effect.

Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party (LJP) Lenox Shuman yesterday told  a visiting team from the Carter Center that general elections can be held before the end of the year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Those expecting Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy to flame out any day now will have to keep waiting.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Montego Bay Mayor Homer Davis says the gay-rights group Montego Bay Pride will not be granted permission to use the Montego Bay Cultural Centre for a series of events it is planning to stage in the western city.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prominent attorney-at-law Dr Raymond Clough died yesterday morning at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Mona, after a long illness.

Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that GECOM Chair Claudette Singh had stated during a meeting on  Tuesday that the Commission was working towards general elections before the end of the year.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will today be meeting with representatives of the governing APNU+AFC coalition as the question of a date for general elections remains up in the air.

The South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) has said “no concrete steps” have been taken to address the presence of a “dragga” at Parabara Village, South Rupununi, despite “numerous commitments” dating back to December last year.

A Parika pensioner died yesterday morning after he was struck down by a  truck on the Parika Public Road.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fast bowling legend Sir Andy Roberts has questioned the timing of Kieron Pollard’s appointment as white-ball skipper and argues that sacked one-day skipper Jason Holder was not at fault for the West Indies’ wretched one-day form in recent years.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) was grilled yesterday by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on aspects of its e-billing services and a decision by the company to send summary bills instead of the traditional detailed bills.

Shellyann Pompey, who was charged three weeks ago with the possession of 60 pounds of cannabis for trafficking, was freed yesterday after the police opted to withdraw the charge against her.

The Petra Organisation yesterday officially launched the 2019 edition of the Courts Pee Wee U-11 Football Championship at the furniture giant’s Main Street location.

The charges of unlawful confinement against three employees of the New Building Society (NBS) were dismissed by a city magistrate yesterday after the special prosecutor failed to appear in court.

The trial of the barber accused of murdering an Anna Catherina businesswoman and her two children commenced yesterday with the woman’s father taking the stand and recounting discovering their bodies.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Endurance athlete Cameron Bellamy will attempt an unprecedented 150km swim from Barbados to St Lucia today in an effort to complete the longest ocean swim in history.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India axed struggling opener KL Rahul and handed Rohit Sharma a chance to revive his stop-start test career after selecting the limited-overs stalwart for next month’s three-match series against South Africa.

“Children from Albouystown go to West Ruimveldt Primary and this bridge is a great relief for them because, during rainy weather, people used have to hop and skip down the dam.

BARCELONA (Reuters) – With Lionel Messi still injured, faltering La Liga champions Barcelona host Valencia tomorrow needing to prove they can produce big performances without their talisman.

(Trinidad Guardian) The 30-year-old sus­pect want­ed for the mur­der of Trinidad-born Kiara Al­leyne, 20, at her home in Flori­da on Wednes­day has been re­ceiv­ing med­ical care af­ter he was found se­ri­ous­ly in­jured by Mar­i­on Coun­ty homi­cide of­fi­cers and had to be air­lift­ed from the area where he was lo­cat­ed.

One week after Hurricane Dorian there have been no reports of missing persons, casualties or deaths among the Guyanese population living in The Bahamas, according to Honorary Consul for Guyana, Jairam Mangra.

Bakeries from across the country are being urged to ‘raise their game,’ in anticipation of what is likely to be a groundswell of potential competition, as Guyana’s economy shifts into oil & gas mode.

Corentyne rice farmers are upset with the Regional Administration and the government for their lack of assistance in ensuring that the rice industry flourishes especially during the harvesting season which recently began and is expected to conclude in late November.

Timehri Panthers were crowned the inaugural champion of the Vurlon Mills Football Academy/MVP Sports U-11 Tournament last Saturday at the St Stanislaus College ground, Carifesta Avenue.

While this month had originally been targeted for the return of Fly Jamaica to the skies, the latest indications are that the timetable may still be ‘up in the air,’ so to speak, as unresolved issues still appear to hang ominously over the head of the controversial airline.  A story in the Friday September 6 issue of the Jamaica Gleaner quoted the airline’s founder, Guyanese Ronald Reece, as saying that no deal has as yet been finalised for the takeover of the airline.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden clashed with progressive challengers Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on healthcare in a debate yesterday, defending Obamacare and challenging them to be honest about the cost of their plans.

A businessman from East Coast Demerara was yesterday robbed and shot while transacting business in Port Mourant, Corentyne.

(Reuters) – Christian Coleman wants an apology from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) now that the body has dropped a whereabouts charge against him, the American sprinter said on Wednesday.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – California’s legislature yesterday passed a three-year ban on state and local law enforcement from using body cameras with facial recognition software, the latest curb on technology that some say poses a threat to civil liberties.

The Kildonan Night School has been making strides since its establishment in February 2018, the Department of Public Information (DPI) says.

As Guyana moves closer to first oil some time during the first quarter of 2020, concerns may be emerging over the issue of the unionisation of workers employed in fields related to the country’s oil and gas sector arising out of what would appear to be documented evidence that foreign companies in the sector may not be disposed to the unionisation of Guyanese workers.  Late last week Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) General Secretary Lincoln Lewis told Stabroek Business that he had been “reliably informed” that Totaltec Oilfield Services Inc, which in its promotional material says it is  “committed to identifying opportunities in the oil & gas industry and placing qualified and dedicated Guyanese,” had fired a Guyanese who had refused to sign an employment contract with the company which vetoes union membership for employees “without the prior written consent of the company.”

ZURICH (Reuters) – Former South American football boss Juan Angel Napout has been banned for life from the sport and fined one million Swiss francs ($1 million) by FIFA, more than one year after being given a nine-year jail sentence by a U.S.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea wants to keep 40% of gold produced from the proposed Wafi-Golpu project, the country’s commerce minister said, creating a potential hurdle to an agreement with co-owners Newcrest Mining and Harmony Gold.

President of the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) Clinton Williams has weighed in on the intensely debated issue of the posture of the commercial banking sector towards lending to the small business sector, essentially contending that the issue of the banks’ posture had to be seen from both perspectives.

Dear Editor, Guyana is becoming a territory of capitalistic venture. As Guyana furthers its economic relations with foreign states in the age of new opportunities, it becomes prone to a series of domestic political challenges.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) will tomorrow transfer its responsibility for the La Parfaite Harmonie Housing Scheme along with the Goed Fortuin regularised squatting area to the Malgre Tout/Meer Zorgen Neighbour-hood Democratic Council (NDC), West Coast of Demerara.

LONDON (Reuters) – England’s batting frailties were exposed again as they wasted a solid start and laboured to 271 for eight on the first day of the final Ashes test against Australia at The Oval yesterday.

Local agro-processors may have come a long way from the days of recycled jam jars and label-related information typed on bits of paper and attached with cheap, frequently unsightly paste, but while we have been seeking to play catch up, the rest of the world has not been standing still.

Dear Editor, I believe it is a fair statement that there is substantial public skepticism the world over of police self-investigations. 

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Mexican government protested and Central American migrants feared deportation back to their violent homelands yesterday after the U.S.

A youth was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of robbing a couple at the Kingston seawall.

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Lionel Messi says he wanted Neymar to return to Barcelona this year as the Brazilian would have helped the club take a leap forward, adding that his former team mate was looking forward to rejoining the La Liga champions.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – A former Peruvian first lady was dragged out of a courtroom in San Francisco yesterday as she cursed a judge’s decision to keep her husband, ex-president Alejandro Toledo, in jail pending extradition proceedings.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a privately-operated local training institution is urging local service providers across the broad range of disciplines to take training seriously if they seriously want to “survive and prosper” in what he says will be “the highly competitive environment” in which they will have to operate in the period ahead.”

A 20-year-old mason who admitted to stealing a bicycle was yesterday sentenced to six months in jail after he failed to convince the owner to allow him to work for him in order to repay him for the theft.

Dear Editor, Did you know that hot drinks and food remain the number one cause of serious burns to young children?

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago’s appetite for gore, bacchanal, scandal and death has left Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi wondering if this country has turned into a Roman Colosseum.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Barbados Tridents crippled St Kitts and Nevis Patriots with spin, bringing them back down to earth with a 18-run defeat, to claim their first win of the Caribbean Premier League here Wednesday night.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A group of Venezuelan government officials and opposition activists are quietly holding talks focused on the economy despite the stalling of a formal dialogue mediated by Norway, according to nine sources involved.

A simple larceny accused heard that the charge against him was dismissed yesterday after witnesses repeatedly failed to show up for the proceedings.

(Reuters) – Four-times Grand Slam champion Kim Clijsters plans to come out of retirement after a seven-year hiatus, returning to the WTA Tour in 2020, the 36-year-old Belgian said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter captioned, `Questions for Mr Heath-Retemyer’ that was published in the Sunday Stabroek on September 08, 2019 and authored by one Mr Eddy Layne, the Editor-in-Chief of MTV News Update.

(Trinidad Express) Between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning two men were murdered in separate incidents in North Trinidad.

Whatever the eventual outcome of the firm grip in which the sanctions imposed by the United States has left Venezuela’s oil industry, it is now clear that at the end of the ordeal the sector will be in need of an overhaul that may take a considerable amount of time, perhaps even a few years.The

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ex-military intelligence chief told a Spanish court that Washington was fabricating drug-trafficking charges in its extradition request, throwing into doubt future cooperation with the U.S.

An armed robbery accused was yesterday freed after a city magistrate found that the prosecution failed to prove its case against him.

DETROIT/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Just two days before the UAW’s contracts with Detroit automakers were due to expire, U.S.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya will be officially awarded her gold medal from the 2011 world athletics championships at this year’s edition in Doha, but will not be there to receive it.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Natural Resources is aware of a letter to the Editor dated September 10th by Mr.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday September 12, 2019 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

Dear Editor, Thelma Pinder Doobay passed away on September 9, 2019, at her home in Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown. 

PARK CITY, Utah,  (Reuters) – By the time Kelly Pfaff got home from driving her son to school that morning, it was too late.

The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

Several persons escaped unhurt on Wednesday night following an accident involving a minibus and a motor lorry along the Ogle, East Coast Demerara Public Road.

(Barbados Nation) Police have charged two men with the murder of 22-year-old Rahim Ward.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 842’s trading results showed consideration of $843,064 from 7,162 shares traded in 10 transactions as compared to session 841’s trading results which showed consideration of $10,003,675 from 104,587 shares traded in 12 transactions.

In a short while, yet another group of creative people from the agro-processing and craft sectors, predominantly, will be heading for a high profile product display and marketing opportunity in the United States.

Once famed as the world’s longest floating bridge at the time of its construction, the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has served as the transportation link between West Bank Demerara and Georgetown for over four decades.

Last week Commissioner of Police Leslie James told the media that Deputy Commissioner of Police Lyndon Alves had been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

– Exploiting `compromise’ strategically `Officer’ Lowenfield: The man in command I know I would have quoted His Excellency’s Under-rated “Quip” – “Because I en leafing fuh juss now” – many columns ago.

A melee between two cousins yesterday afternoon resulted in one person being hospitalised and the other in police custody.

(Reuters) – The introduction of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has been unable to prevent four wrong decisions in the Premier League matches this season, referees’ chief Mike Riley has said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A commercial flight with 326 people on board was forced to make an emergency landing when hot coffee was accidentally spilled over the cockpit control panel over the Atlantic ocean, according to a report yesterday.

(CPL) St Lucia Zouks secured an impressive first victory of their 2019 Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign on a night marred by a nasty-looking injury for Jamaica Tallawahs’ star all-rounder Andre Russell.  Rahkeem Cornwall continued his fine start to the season as he and Andre Fletcher did the bulk of the work to send the Zouks powering past the Tallawahs’ 170/5 with five wickets and 20 balls to spare.   But the sight of Russell being taken from the field on a stretcher having been struck on the back of the head by a Hardus Viljoen bouncer was one nobody wanted to see.

NASSAU,  (Reuters) – A tropical cyclone was forecast to move across the northwestern Bahamas in the coming days, potentially bringing more rain and wind to islands already devastated by Hurricane Dorian, the U.S.