Daily Archive: Monday, November 18, 2019

Troy Resources Guyana Inc has decided to terminate hundreds of employees while it continues to make efforts to restart operations.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Fans will recognise Kevoy Burton as the lead actor in Right Girl, Wrong Address for the play’s final few weeks at Centerstage, or as the intense financial ‘coach’ on Victoria Mutual Group’s iSave campaign.

HONG KONG,  (Reuters) – Hong Kong police laid siege to a university today, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back anti-government protesters armed with petrol bombs and other weapons and stop them from fleeing amid fears of a bloody crackdown.

(Trinidad Express) The media have been banned from the funeral of Satnayaran Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS).

(Trinidad Newsday) The day before she was fired as Scarborough General Hospital’s Medical Chief of Staff, Dr Rufaro Celestine sent a legal letter to the Tobago Regional Health Authority (TRHA), questioning the conduct of the authority’s CEO Sheldon Cyrus in relation to an e-mail she had written, two weeks ago, expressing concern about the shortage of medical staff at the hospital.

(Jamaica Observer) A day after Alisia Beckford buried her brother and was preparing to attend church, gunmen entered her yard in Bayshore Heights, St Andrew, and sprayed her son, Justin Foster, with bullets.

–   151 were murdered by bandits –   239 killed during confrontations with police and in unexplained circumstances –   30 security officers lost their lives Introduction For more than 15 years, the number of persons who died in the violence that followed the February 23rd, 2002 Camp Street jailbreak and the circumstances of their deaths have been the sources of heated disputation.

Boat operators and commuters using the Charity Wharf on the Essequibo Coast, say it is on the verge of collapsing completely and could result in injuries if it is not fixed soon, while Regional Chairman, Devanand Ramdatt has deemed it “a disaster waiting to happen.”

District Five’s Morvin Hamilton and Tia Azore of District 10 emerged winners of the male and female Open 10k road race of this years’ 59th National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships which got underway yesterday.

Justice For All Party (JFAP) representative in the APNU+AFC coalition government, Jaipaul Sharma, says that he is willing to “sacrifice” his position in the alliance to facilitate a renewing of the Cummingsburg Accord.

Former President Donald Ramotar has expressed “disappointment” at the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) silence on the government’s constitutional violations saying that it lends credence to criticisms of others who question the organisation’s relevance.

Guyana’s Andrew King reigned supreme in the Group 4 category but 16 year-old Zane Maloney stole the show after starring in the SR3 Radical class yesterday at the South Dakota Circuit where the GMR&SC’s Clash of Champions was staged.

Police in Lethem were yesterday morning summoned to the Tabatinga road in Lethem, Region Nine, where the headless body of a Brazilian man, which bore multiple stab wounds, was discovered.

Sparta Boss, Gold is Money, Showstoppers, Future Stars and Leopold Street secured victories when the inaugural Rio Indoor Street-ball championship continued on Saturday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

India Women extended their lead in the five-match series to four after beating West Indies Women by five runs via the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern Method in the penultimate match of the series at the National Stadium, Providence yesterday.

Regional newspapers, the Trinidad Express and Barbados Nation have urged the David Granger administration to reconsider its actions towards Stabroek News regarding the withdrawal of government ads from the newspaper which it has called an attack on press freedom.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Rovman Powell struck an exhilarating hundred to help Jamaica Scorpions overcome a stiff challenge from minnows Canada and register their second win of the Super50 Cup here Saturday night.

The island of Leguan, Region 3 is now better protected from overtopping with the reconstruction of the sea defence at Success.

The Guyana Bar Association has lauded the accomplishments of the late Chief Justice Ian Chang SC saying that he had made law his life.

A top of the table clash between leader Pouderoyen and Crane failed to produce a winner, following a 2-2 draw on Saturday at the Goed Fortuin Community ground in the WDFA Senior Football League.

Dear Editor, The following is an excerpt from an article titled: The world needs more Ethiopia and less Exxon, by Toby A.A.

Thirty-five employees of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) who didn’t have a chance to complete high school are being given the opportunity to grapple with core subjects and to write CSEC exams.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – It takes an all-round, clinical performance to win a test in three days but Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli was particularly pleased at how the team’s pacers outshone spinners in the opening test against visitors Bangladesh.

Dear Editor, Carl ‘Max’ Alton Hanoman was a family friend, physician to many members of my family as well as a personal confidant.

Dear Editor, It is a reversal of all that we were taught in math classes, and which form the backbone of our understanding of the hierarchy of numbers, of the serenity of settled order, and of the strategic placement of people and things. 

LUCKNOW, India, CMC – Minnows Afghanistan inflicted West Indies with a stunning series defeat here yesterday, after stifling the Caribbean side’s powerful batting lineup to pull off a clinical 29-run victory in the final Twenty20 International of the three-match series.

The Christmas wish of a Berbice woman is to undergo a much needed surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm and in order to do so, she is seeking the public’s help to raise funds to offset her expenses.

A Grant New Port, Pomeroon River, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) woman is seeking the public’s assistance in locating her 73-year-old mother who has been missing for two weeks now.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two teenagers, a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old boy, drowned at the Argyle Waterfall in Tobago yesterday, after a sudden gush of water caught them off-guard.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro embraced the currency of his bitter rival the United States yesterday, calling it an “escape valve” that can help the country weather its economic crisis amid U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Stefanos Tsitsipas confirmed his meteoric rise into the highest echelon of men’s tennis by battling back to beat Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-7(6) 6-2 7-6(4) in a compelling title duel at the ATP Finals yesterday.

Dear Editor, The WPA’s response to Dr Pat Rodney’s remarks represents a shameful diatribe that is not only opportunistic, but it places rank political opportunism over one’s moral compass.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivians languished in long lines on the streets of La Paz yesterday to secure chicken, eggs and cooking fuel as supporters of ousted President Evo Morales crippled the country’s highways, isolating population centers from lowland farms.

A long-standing precept of diplomacy has been that nations and their representatives do not intervene directly in the internal politics of other nations.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 26-year-old man from El Dorado was shot and killed while purchasing a meal in Curepe, early yesterday. 

Dear Editor, I visited the Commissioner of Information Justice Ramson – a childhood friend -several times in his East Street office  in my recent visit to Guyana.

Youngster, Ravindra Harry stormed off with the Demerara Distillers’ Limited-sponsored, El Dorado Golf Classic on Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course after finishing with the best net score of the day.

The type of mud available in Dantzig, Mahaicony, is affecting the construction of the earthen flood prevention dam, Head of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) Frederick Flatts has said.

Public servants will undoubtedly welcome the retroactive pay increase announced by President Granger on Wednesday and particularly the lump sum that will be provided just in time for the Christmas season.