Daily Archive: Friday, December 6, 2019

(Trinidad Express) The husband of Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is currently hospitalised and was carded to  undergo a medical procedure.

(Jamaica Star) In August, Latoya Hogarth, 28, had a brain aneurysm.

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is offering a $5M reward for information leading to the arrest of anyone involved in the vandalizing of its fibre cables on the Linden Highway recently.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Home captain Virat Kohli smashed a masterly 94 not out to fashion a successful chase as India beat West Indies by six wickets in the first Twenty20 International on Friday.

A number of families were displaced early this morning after a fire of unknown origin gutted three Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown houses.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa chief executive Thabang Moroe has been suspended following allegations of misconduct, the CSA said today, just hours after the organisation’s major sponsor said they would not renew their contract.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Indian police shot dead four men today who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, an action applauded by her family and many citizens outraged over sexual violence against women.

Speaking at concurrent media engagements President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo told the public that Guyana’s sugar industry is viable but presented very different strategies for the continued operation of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo).

More than a week after he was charged with attempting to export over $7 million in raw gold without a licence, Vibert Marks appeared in a city court yesterday and was charged with attempting to bribe a Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officer.

HYDERABAD, India, CMC –  West Indies will seek to end a frustrating streak that has left them without a series win against India in 13 years, but captain Kieron Pollard said yesterday he was under no illusions about the size of the challenge facing his embattled side.

(Trinidad Express) A woman described as an avid church member appeared in the San Fernando Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with armed robbery at a gas station in August.

Fugitive Guyanese national Benvolio Francois Caitanya Valenski, who is wanted in Canada for a series of charges, including attempted murder, was yesterday arrested at the Guyana Revenue Authority’s Camp Street Office, where he attempted to secure a local driver’s licence, Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia has confirmed.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will experiment less and look to play their best Twenty20 side with just over 10 months left before the T20 World Cup, captain Virat Kohli said at Hyderabad on the eve of a three-match series against West Indies yesterday.

The Grenada National Men’s Basketball Team arrived on local shores yesterday to commence their Goodwill International Series, which is slated to start tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

A 26-year-old Mabaruma farmer, who allegedly lashed a boat captain with a piece of wood, resulting in his death, was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with murder.

SHEFFIELD, England (Reuters) – Newcastle United’s Allan Saint-Maximin netted an early header before a controversial Jonjoy Shelvey goal secured a 2-0 win at Sheffield United in the Premier League yesterday.

Eighty-one employees from Barama Company Limited were retrenched as the company looks to improve its profitability and sustain its future operations, General Manager Mohindra Chand told Stabroek News yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Arsenal lost to Brighton & Hove Albion at home for the first time ever yesterday as goals by Adam Webster and Neal Maupay lifted the visitors to a 2-1 victory in the Premier League.

Thirty-five-year-old Jairam Lallman was ordered to serve a four-year sentence yesterday after he admitted to having over 100 pounds of cannabis in his possession.

Victory Valley Royals and Retrieve Raiders continued their unbeaten runs in the Linden Amateur Basketball Association/Youth Basketball Guyana Under 19 Club Championship on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard court.

Almost a month after residents of Port Kaituma began grappling with no electricity from the Port Kaituma Power and Light Company (PKPL), power was finally restored yesterday afternoon.

SOCU prosecutor questioned by police over failure to appear in rice case Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan says special prosecutor for the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Lawrence Harris, is being questioned by police about his failure to appear in a matter in which six former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) officials were charged with various offences. 

Local fruit farmers who may be considering shifting to alternative business pursuits may wish to think again on the basis of continually emerging evidence that whatever the seemingly viable options that may exist, agriculture continues to hold its own, globally, as a sound investment option and a major money-earner.

DUBLIN, Ireland, CMC – Ireland coach Graham Ford has underscored the importance of a quick acclimatisation after selectors yesterday announced 14-man squads for the limited overs tour of the Caribbean next month.

Setting aside the customary ‘one off’ encounters between buyers and sellers designed to facilitate product-promotion and, more importantly, the rare but valued market for small businesses in several sectors, this weekend’s UNCAPPED event billed for the National Stadium at Providence, will provide an opportunity for innovative but still insufficiently embraced entrepreneurial enterprises to encounter representatives of the banking sector in the hope of cutting through the thicket of bureaucracy that continues to limit access for small businesses to financing for growth and expansion.

With a young Linden sports personality as the party’s latest public endorser, Change Guyana presidential candidate Robert Badal yesterday promised Lindeners to follow suit and support him as if elected he will ensure that equal developmental focus is placed in the region.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) spent GY$73,139,948 on travel for the recently concluded CONCACAF Nations League (CNL) which included the qualifying campaign in 2018/2019, and the Brazil Training Camp in 2018.

Prosville, a community on the outskirts of Linden, has finally received its own power supply system after a 15- year wait.

(Reuters) – Everton have sacked manager Marco Silva the day after dropping into the relegation zone following a 5-2 defeat at Merseyside rivals Liverpool, the Premier League club said yesterday.

As part of an initiative aimed at responding to what the company sees as the need for Guyana to accelerate access to technology-driven tools that will lend critical support to its development direction, STARR Computers Chief Executive Officer Michael Mohan has told Stabroek Business that the company has signed an Agreement with the Japanese company, Seiko Epson Corporation (EPSON) under which the local technology distributor is now an Authorized Service Center for Epson products marketed here.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican expatriates have generally reacted with dismay to Democratic candidate Senator Kamala Harris’ decision to pull the plug on her presidential election race, but some believe that the pragmatism of money in politics and her failure to energise black voters ultimately cost her the campaign.

The trial of an East Canje, Berbice labourer, who is accused of murdering a United States-based Buxton woman in 2015, commenced on Wednesday.

As part of its pursuit of raising quality standards in the local agro processing sector, the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) has been both initiating and supporting sensitization and training for agro processors aimed at upgrading production standards and supporting the readying of products for the market.

(Reuters) – World heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr has said he fulfilled a lifelong dream when he triumphed over Britain’s Anthony Joshua in June and he would “die trying” to defend his belts in the title rematch in Saudi Arabia tomorrow.

With several local business houses already preoccupied with better positioning themselves to take advantage of the anticipated transformational changes in the Guyana economy, Floor It Guyana, a subsidiary of the privately-owned Cummings Wood Products (CWP), is moving to consolidate market awareness of its presence and of the products that it has to offer by creating a new Georgetown showroom on North Road, between Camp and Wellington streets.

The Ministry of Education yesterday said that it has noted a social media post which stated “East Coast Demerara primary school student beaten and sodomized by more than six students in school toilet”.

Dear Editor, On Thursday I visited the Villages around the closed Wales Sugar Estate.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Warning that American democracy is at stake, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed a House committee yesterday to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a historic step that sets up a fight over whether to oust him from office.

ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei, the fastest-ever woman marathon runner, has set her sights on next year’s Olympic games, where a win will solidify her place among the greatest to have ever competed in the sport.

(Trinidad Newsday) A gunman who shot at and missed his intended target in the streets of San Fernando on Thursday morning fled police by running into an all-girls’ school.

A man who was caught with over 400 grammes of cannabis was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after he admitted to being a trafficker.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) wishes to respond to an article published by Stabroek News on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 under the headline ‘Aishalton residents say rotting bridge putting travelers in danger.’

(Jamaica Observer) Regional telecommunications giant, Digicel is currently evaluating its refinancing options over part of its debt pile, which currently stands at around US$7 billion (€6.35bn).

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Measles infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, as devastating outbreaks of the viral disease hit every region of the world, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

In the fullness of time, when the Guyanese society as a whole begins to pay greater attention than it does at this time to the energy that goes into women-run small businesses, they are likely to come to a significantly enhanced appreciation of the effort that is invested in first, setting up, and afterwards, sustaining these enterprises.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been proposed for International Olympic Committee membership, but World Athletics head Sebastian Coe will have to wait due to a conflict of interest, IOC President Thomas Bach said yesterday.

BANJUL, (Reuters) – The genocide case brought against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the first of its kind initiated since the 1990s – may not have happened at all but for a scheduling conflict.

Dear Editor, As a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana (1992-2001) I cannot help but interpret the recent ‘diplomatic shake-up’ at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as anything other than a breakdown in policy formulation and coordination between the Ministry of the Presidency and the Foreign Ministry.

The Chair of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), is encouraging ‘peaceful elections’ in Dominica today.

A party of police came under fire yesterday morning as they intercepted a suspected contraband activity at Belfield Foreshore, East Coast Demerara.

Backed by a retinue of public and private sector organisations including the Department of Youth, the Ministry of Education, the Office of the First Lady, the National Library, the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company, ExxonMobil, Tullow Oil and a significant diaspora group, the local organisation, STEMGuyana says that its Sunday December 15 Annual Robotics Exhibition at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre should be seen as part of the process in the journey in pursuit of its mission to prepare Guyana’s young people to be the country’s next generation of innovators and leaders.

(Field Level Media) The Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James took to Instagram yesterday, one day after he was criticised by Utah Jazz announcers for celebrating teammate Kyle Kuzma from the side of the court while not wearing his shoes.

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.

(Barbados Nation) Former Barbadian Prime Minister , Professor Owen Arthur, says Barbados has to urgently build “a new economy”, warning that “the boat is pulling out of harbour and we are not on it”.

Dear Editor, ‘Desi’ snubbed Desai named.  Never heard of him. Yours faithfully, Shamshun Mohamed

The trial for the Pike Street, Kitty man who was charged with murdering a vagrant in 2017 outside a Lamaha Street nightclub commenced on Tuesday at the High Court in Georgetown.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities yesterday took aim at a Russian cybercriminal group known as Evil Corp, indicting its Lamborghini-driving alleged leader and ordering asset freezes against 17 of his associates over a digital crime spree that has netted more than $100 million from companies across the world.

(Reuters) – Real Madrid’s 100-million-euro ($110 million) forward Eden Hazard is set to miss his side’s crunch match with La Liga leaders Barcelona later this month after being diagnosed with a fractured ankle.

Gold Prices for the three day period ending Thursday November 21,, 2019 Kitco is a Canadian company that buys and sells precious metals such as gold, copper and silver.

(Trinidad Express) The body of an unidentified woman was found yesterday afternoon near a sweet potato garden in Cunupia.

A 39-year-old farmer, who allegedly hit his drinking partner in order to separate him from his wife during a row, was remanded to prison for the offence yesterday when he appeared in a city court on an attempted murder charge.

Dear Editor, With the launch of the People’s Republic Party, I am happy to see yet another party in the election mix as I believe that a healthy democracy is one in which persons should have many options to choose from.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru and Washington are in the final stages of talks on a deal to promote American investments in the South American country as part of a U.S.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) – Cardiff City have appealed against the decision ordering them to pay six million euros ($6.61 million) to Nantes for the transfer of Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash on his way to join the Welsh club, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said yesterday.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 854’s trading results showed consideration of $61,252,691 from 329,662 shares traded in 12 transactions as compared to session 853’s trading results which showed consideration of $2,149,935 from 16,588 shares traded in 12 transactions.

Credit must go to both the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) and the Guyana Manufacturing & Services Association (GMSA) for what has now become their successive ‘offerings’ of the UncappeD and Farmers Market Day events, both of which are essentially product-promotion events with an eye to providing markets, albeit limited ones, for our farmers and our agro-processors.

The Baby Jesus became a Christ. Why? Hello readers, a pleasant Friday and peaceful weekend to you all.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two men are dead after gunmen opened fire on a group of people in Covigne Diego Martin last night.

The Court of Appeal on Wednesday held the first hearing in the appeal by Mark Assing, 49, against his conviction in 2014 for murder. 

Last month some serious flaws in what might loosely be termed the disciplinary aspects of the school system were exposed.

Introduction Last week’s column gave a brief overview of the Third Draft of Government’s Local Content Policy which was released to the bemused public by Dr.

Dear Editor, In light of recent confrontations involving police and civilians, the question many Guyanese are asking is whether a civilian should be allowed to video record for their own safety.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – A 34-year-old British hiker was revived in Spain after a six-hour cardiac arrest brought on by severe hypothermia, with the low mountain temperatures that made her ill also helping to save her life in what a doctor described as an “exceptional case”.

Last month some serious flaws in what might loosely be termed the disciplinary aspects of the school system were exposed.

It’s true, men usually get a bad rap. When assessing their role and actions in society, they are often placed on the negative end of the scale.