Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers last night intercepted an East Canje man on Mandela Avenue with 102 lbs of suspected marijuana.

GAWU says that thousands of sugar workers at the Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt Estates have downed tools as they heightened their call for a pay rise.

ExxonMobil’s local subsidiary Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for authorization to drill some 31 wells in three offshore blocks.

(Jamaica Observer) After spending three years behind bars, Dishane Dixon’s first taste of freedom was short-lived, as he was shot dead on Slipe Road in Kingston, one hour after his release.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Shock and grief gripped a section of Waterford in Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday after three members of a family were shot dead in their living room shortly after 9 p.m.

(Trinidad Express) The United National Congress (UNC) has stormed into the PNM stronghold that was the San Fernando City Corporation (SFCC).

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – A Honduran court on Monday handed down jail terms of up to five decades for seven men convicted of the 2016 murder of indigenous activist Berta Caceres, who led a battle against a major dam on the ancestral lands of her Lenca tribe.

Following an organisational restructuring, career diplomat Charlene Phoenix has been named the new administrative head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while five overseas mission heads are to be replaced.

Surveillance camera footage confirms that the Route 31 minibus that collided with a car last Saturday along the Nismes, West Bank Demerara public road, resulting in four deaths, was speeding at the time.

It has been four years since the Guyana Prize for Literature was last awarded and members of the literary community have begun to despair that the Prize will ever be resurrected.

After spending 26 years behind bars for the murder of a man whom they strangled and stabbed to the neck, brothers Daniel and Kornel Vaux were yesterday released on parole after Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan signed licences for their release which was recommended by the Parole Board.

Magistrate Alex Moore yesterday said that the preliminary inquiry (PI) into charge against Marcus Brian Bisram, the alleged mastermind behind the murder of a Corentyne carpenter, would be conducted by way of paper committal proceedings, which he said could be completed before the end of the year.

Four men, including three accused of raping children, were yesterday freed of the sexual offence charges against them after the state disclosed that the respective complainants could not be located over a number of years.

A police investigation has been launched into the death of a gold miner whose lifeless body was discovered in an old mining pit at Macurie Backdam, Mazaruni River on Saturday.

It was a clean sweep of titles for the visiting Trinidad and Tobago sides when the 15th edition of the Diamond Mineral Water Hockey Festival concluded on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Mandela Avenue.

The body of a 53-year-old farmer was yesterday morning found floating in the Pomeroon River and it is suspected that he might have drowned.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Off-spinner Kevin Sinclair said West Indies Emerging Players had a feeling they would have won the Super50 Cup after a stroke of fortune saw them squeeze into the semi-finals.

Managing Director of the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel,  Robert Badal, has presented a cheque for one million dollars to president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) for the 2019/2020 edition of the GFF Super 16 Cup, year-end tournament.

To mark World AIDS Day, which was observed on Sunday, the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) in partnership with newly established private clinic Midway Specialty Care Centre yesterday launched the Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) service to stop new HIV infections in Guyana.

Veteran match official, Arleigh Rutherford, was recently re-elected unopposed as  president of the Georgetown Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association (GCUSA) when the body held its Annual General Meeting at Union Hall Building, Woolford Avenue.

The expected ruling by Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on the challenge by the Berbice Bridge Company Incorporated (BBCI) to the government’s takeover of the operations of the bridge has been deferred until December 18th.

To provide support to oil and gas operators here, Houston, Texas-headquartered subsea engineering and applied technology firm Oceaneering has established an office in Guyana.

Romario Gonsalves and Tineisha Toney were adjudged the best overall male and female lifters when the Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation staged its flagship National Senior Championships on Sunday at St Stanislaus College Auditorium.

A man was jailed on Friday for three years after he pleaded guilty to maliciously wounding his ex-fiancée.

Albion Cricket Club, Sunday defeated Rose Hall Canje by 223 runs in Zone 11 of the Berbice Cricket Board/ New Building Society 40-overs second division competition.

A gold miner, who police say was busted at the Kingston Wharf with a quantity of cannabis stashed inside a music set, was remanded to prison by a city magistrate yesterday.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) collaborated with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to complete a successful four-day Sports Administrators’ course on Sunday at their headquarters at Liliendaal.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Council of Organisations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) joins the United Nations (UN), members of the international and regional disability communities and Guyanese living with disabilities to observe International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD)  today, Tuesday 3rd December 2019.

Dear Editor, I first sang at the National Cultural Centre (NCC), it could have been in 1978, and remember seeing Bernard Chung there, working as part of the backstage staff.

Vendors on Regent Street are calling on the Mayor and City Council to put systems in place to prevent market revenue collectors from harassing them, requesting bribes and demanding that they sell from 6am to 6pm during the Christmas season or move.

Mainstay Gold Stars sealed a spot in the GFF ‘Super 16’ Year-End Championships by defeating Charity Extreme 2-1 in the final of the Essequibo / Pomeroon Football Association (EPFA) Qualifiers on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Recently, Raphael Trotman who had the Government of Guyana’s ministerial responsibility for oil and gas during the time when the production sharing agreement with ExxonMobil, Hess, and CNOOC Nexen was re-negotiated and signed in 2016, is quoted in the Kaieteur News as saying that “I would be the first to admit that we should have done far better with the Exxon deal”.

Dr. Patrick Chesney, an agriculture and environment specialist, said that if climate change continues at its current rates, Guyana will experience shorter, more intense rains during rainy seasons, and dryer, longer droughts.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Nathan Lyon grabbed five wickets to spin Australia to an emphatic innings and 48-run victory in the second test against Pakistan yesterday as the hosts swept the series 2-0.

WASHINGTON/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ambushed Brazil and Argentina yesterday, announcing tariffs on U.S.

Dear Editor, Please allow me this opportunity to thank Reds Perreira for his wonderful article, `Looking Back, The Game Of Cricket’, which Dave Martins was kind enough to relay in his `So it Go’ column on Sunday. 

A man was on Friday granted bail after he denied stealing 200 shirts.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – An American woman who says she was forced to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew has appealed to Britons to take her side, saying that only she was telling the truth about a scandal that has engulfed the royal family.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – England wasted a golden opportunity to force a result in the second test against New Zealand as Joe Denly dropped the simplest of catches from Kane Williamson before the hosts reached 211-2 at lunch on the fifth day at Seddon Park.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s government yesterday asked unions and student organizations that are set to hold a third national strike in as many weeks tomorrow to cancel the protest and agreed to union demands to meet individually with the government.

PARIS (Reuters) – Lionel Messi claimed a record sixth Ballon d’Or award yesterday, beating Liverpool’s leading nominees and Cristiano Ronaldo to lift soccer’s most prestigious individual trophy.

The driver who struck down and injured 11-year-old Adalia George while she was using a pedestrian crossing along the Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road was on November 27th  sentenced to six months in jail after he pleaded guilty to three charges including dangerous driving.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – The world must choose hope over surrender in the fight against climate change, U.N.

Dear Editor, Guyana has returned, once again, to the now familiar term, the “garbage city”. 

(Trinidad Express) A doctor was among three people killed overnight in separate crashes.

A contingent of 13 boxers is scheduled to wing out tomorrow to compete at the fifth annual Caribbean Boxing Championships in Trinidad.

Vishal Jones, an ex-convict who admitted to stealing a pressure washer, became the second person referred to the drug treatment court yesterday.

Dear Editor, I wish to add a few comments concerning the intentions of the newly launched political party called ‘The People’s Republic Party’ (PRP).

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – Wall Street hedge funds and lawyers have turned an arcane procedure of international treaties into a money machine, at the cost of the world’s poorest people.

The first thing that should be said about physical and/or verbal ‘retaliatory measures’ by parents against teachers perceived to have punished or otherwise wronged their children during the course of in-school interaction is that it is, under any conceivable circumstance, altogether unacceptable.

Their plight no longer hits the headlines, but the shocking personal stories continue to emerge.  

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday accused Cuba and Venezuela of attempting to hijack democratic protests in Latin America, vowing that Washington would support countries trying to prevent unrest in the region from turning into riots.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) has closed the State’s case in the pre­lim­i­nary in­quiry of ten men charged with the mur­der of for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dana See­ta­hal, SC.