Articles published on Wednesday, December 11, 2019
(Jamaica Star) The Unites States Embassy has revoked the diplomatic visa that it issued to East Portland Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz, and has also turned down her request a visitors’ visa.
(Trinidad Guardian) Friday December 13th 2019 is the last day the US Embassy in Port of Spain will accept the old TT$100 bills for some services.
The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Guyana today signed a pact which brings closer the operationalisation of the Natural Resource Fund which is to receive oil revenues.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India captain Virat Kohli led a six-hitting fest against West Indies during a blistering unbeaten knock of 70 off 29 balls, guiding his team to a 67-run series-clinching victory in the third and final Twenty20 international today.
The U.S. Embassy and United Nations collaborated on an NGO management workshop held December 9-10 for 45 managers of NGOs in Guyana representing six different regions.
The Head of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) says that this morning it was reported that a suspected chemical spill occurred in the vicinity of the Laparkan Wharf located on Lombard Street, Georgetown.
NEW YORK/MADRID, (Reuters) – Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede who inspired millions of young people to take action against climate change, has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Gunmen went on a rampage last night in over Dover District in Kitson Town, St Catherine shooting eight persons, four fatally.
(Trinidad Express) The Judiciary says that one of its Court security officers was arrested by a police officer who refused to subject himself to the scanner before being allowed into the Mayaro Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
(Jamaica Star) Months after being wrongly accused of having sexual intercourse with a person under 16 sometime last year, John Doe*, 20, was freed last Friday of the charges when he made his first appearance in court.
(Trinidad Guardian) A mad rush across the country yesterday as citizens defied the advice of the Central Bank Governor Alvin Hilaire and rushed to banks across the country to change their old hundred dollar bills to the new Polymer hundred dollar note.
Saying that it is owed over $100 million in taxes, the City Council has moved to freeze Houston Estates’ sale of 52 acres of land to Redstart Investments, which owns Unicomer and similar businesses in Trinidad, the British Virgin Islands and Belize.
The investigation of the almost year-old shooting of School of the Nations Director Dr Brian O’Toole is at a standstill and both he and the police are split on the reason why his assailant has not yet been brought to justice.
With a high demand for land in Region Four, the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) has announced that it has been planning to open as much as approximately 6,000 acres for development.
Timothy Tucker was re-elected president of the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) Monday when the body hosted its Annual General Meeting at the club’s main pavilion.
A young Marriott Hotel worker succumbed at a city hospital early yesterday morning, almost 12 hours after he allegedly collided with a car while riding his motorcycle along the Nonpareil, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road.
Bounty Farm Limited donated several pieces of equipment to East Bank Football Association [EBFA] side Timehri Panthers to aid in their preparation for the impending Guyana Football Federation [GFF] Super 16 Championship, which is slated to commence on Sunday December 15th.
A Sophia man died on Sunday afternoon after he was allegedly struck down by a truck along the Leonora, West Coast Demerara Public Road and his family is now demanding justice.
Lusignan Sports Club and Sunrise were crowned the male and female champions respectively when the 6th Annual Dave and Celina’s softball cricket competition ended Sunday.
The quarterfinal fixtures for the inaugural ‘592 Beer Inter-Village Football Festival’ which is set to commence on Sunday at the Buxton Community ground was released yesterday.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday voted to renew the contract of Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, whose term was due to expire at the end of March, 2020.
The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) of Guyana is currently allocating some 3,000 house lots on an annual basis, according to Chief Executive Officer Lelon Saul, who says the agency is working to increase that number to 5,000, while also reducing a backlog of approximately 50,000 applications.
Captain of Sparta Boss Sheldon Shepherd said that his side is primed and ready for their semi-final encounter with traditional foe Gold is Money in the inaugural Rio Indoor Championship at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue on Saturday.
Former Caribbean Under – 21 table tennis champion Shemar Britton closed out 2019 on a positive note following his recent championship run in the 2019 Trinidad and Tobago Reliability Maintenance Service Limited (RMSL) Super Singles Men’s table tennis championship in the twin island republic.
If elected, the Change Guyana party would grant farmers tax-free status and reopen an agricultural development bank geared to making financing for them easier, party leader Robert Badal has said.
A number of young volleyball players will be hoping to catch the eyes of national selectors on Sunday when the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) stages an Under-21 trials at the National Gymnasium.
Emergency works to repair a collapsed section of the Leguan Stelling commenced yesterday morning and the contractor is aiming to complete the rehabilitation to reopen the facility to the public by Friday, General Manager of the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) Marcelene Merchant said yesterday.
Marian Academy and the Bishops’ High School battled to a scoreless draw when the GuyOil/Tradewind Tankers Secondary School Football League continued Monday at the National Training Centre, Providence.
Guyana has been elected as Chair of the G77 Group, a United Nations coalition of developing nations, but diplomatic sources have questioned the cost, including potentially undermining the country’s past efforts in lobbying for support in its border controversy with Venezuela.
Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine yesterday hosted a walking tour of the central business district for the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Chairman Gerry Gouveia in a bid to secure assistance to address the strain being placed on the city’s garbage collection resources.
(Cricinfo) March 31, 2016, Mumbai. West Indies outgunned India in the semi-final and went onto become World T20 champions.
With Christmas approaching, some city vendors say sales are lower than they usually are but in the true Christmas spirit they remain optimistic that as the days go by business will be booming.
NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Left-hander Sonal Dinusha displayed nerves of steel to deny a strong West Indies comeback, as Sri Lanka dealt the hosts their second straight loss of the Under-19 Tri-Nations Series here yesterday.
(Reuters) – Pakistan’s first test match on home soil since 2009, which starts against Sri Lanka today, is a moment to rejoice for the whole country, Pakistan captain Azhar Ali said yesterday.
No sensitive information was accessed during the cyberattacks that targetted the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC), Commissioner Trevor Benn said on Monday, while noting that his account was under attack on a daily basis.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia opened their home season with a cakewalk against Pakistan but New Zealand should present a much stiffer challenge when they look to end their 34-year wait for a second test series triumph in their neighbours’ backyard.
Dear Editor, The glorious and momentous Chairmanship of the G77 is Guyana’s.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives announced impeachment charges against President Donald Trump yesterday, making him the fourth president in U.S.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The Kremlin is blaming political chicanery, not its own sports officials, after doctored laboratory data resulted in a ban that means Russia will appear on the global sports stage without its flag or anthem for the next four years.
Dear Editor, In the wake of the latest murder of a young Indo-Guyanese woman, Donna Dojoy, I, quite some time ago, came across a social media post by a former minister’s daughter, who is a prominent lawyer, who posted something to the effect that domestic abuse is not confined to any ethnic group, religion or class and, more importantly, mentioned that ignorant posts are extremely harmful to those who are suffering from the scourge.
A 20-year-old electrician was yesterday sentenced to 14 months in prison after a Georgetown Magistrate found him guilty of stealing a motorbike belonging to a police officer.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp won a major victory in a closely-watched lawsuit yesterday when a judge ruled that the company did not defraud investors out of up to $1.6 billion by hiding the true cost of climate change regulation.
Dear Editor, I have rarely agreed with the policies of the Ministry of Education.
(Reuters) – Liverpool moved into the last 16 of the Champions League with a 2-0 victory over Salzburg yesterday as a potentially tricky encounter turned into a second-half cruise with quickfire goals from Naby Keita and Mohamed Salah.
A cattle rancher, who police say was found with more than two pounds of cannabis at his Moblissa home on Saturday, was granted bail yesterday after he denied ownership and claimed that the narcotic belonged to his tenant, who escaped when the police made the discovery.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Opposition activists and independent journalists in Communist-run Cuba said state security and police stopped them from leaving their homes yesterday to prevent them marking or reporting on international Human Rights Day.
Nemanja Bjelica drilled a 3-pointer at the buzzer, and the Sacramento Kings claimed a 119-118 victory over the host Houston Rockets on Monday.
Dear Editor, The Granger ‘caretaker’ administration and its cheerleaders have launched a campaign to criticise and denounce commitments to re-open the Skeldon, Rose Hall and Enmore Estates.
Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) in Georgetown for the procurement of goods and services for several public agencies, including three for the supply and installation of a new x-ray machine with computed radiography system for the Ministry of Communities.
WHAKATANE, New Zealand (Reuters) – Increasing tremor activity on a volcanic island in New Zealand has hampered efforts by authorities to recover the bodies of eight people believed to be on the island, two days after it erupted.
A total of 90 hernia surgeries were completed over the weekend at three public hospitals.
(BBC) The “toxic” conditions at the Sydney Cricket Ground, caused by bushfires, left players feeling like they have “smoked 80 cigarettes”, says Australia spinner Steve O’Keefe.
Dear Editor, There is a letter in the Stabroek News from someone who labels himself as Mark Devonish, who chose to call on the PPP to explain how they will reopen the closed sugar estates without damaging the economy (SN: 10/12/19).
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in an hours-long shootout that unfolded yesterday afternoon near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey, police said.
A Corentyne man is now nursing a chop wound to his head after three men attempted to rob him and two others on Sunday evening at Hampshire Village, Corentyne.
(Reuters) – International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman Shashank Manohar is to step down when his current term ends in May next year, Indian newspaper The Hindu has reported.
On Monday, the 12 executive members of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) met in Lausanne, the small Swiss city on Lake Geneva, to review the recommendation made last month by WADA’s independent Compliance Review Committee (CRC) that RUSADA, the Russian anti-doping agency, should be declared non-compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code in the face of erased or manipulated data forwarded to WADA.
Contracts, said to be valued at over $110 million in total, were signed on Monday for water supply improvement projects to be done in Fly Hill, Kwaimatta, Shulinab, Wowetta and Aranaputa, in Region Nine.
Yesterday was the United Nations Human Rights Day and the implications of increasing global income and wealth inequality are so destructive of those rights that as we approach the 2020 elections, all political parties should make some statement on this matter as it relates to Guyana.
Dear Editor, There was once a time when we thought robberies, murders, violence, and grand theft auto would be something one would see in action-packed movies with famous actors.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s Air Force yesterday said one of its cargo planes had crashed with 38 people on board after going missing in an isolated area between South America and the Antarctic, with the chance of finding survivors looking “difficult.”
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Peronist leader, Alberto Fernandez, was sworn in as president yesterday, marking a shift to the left for Latin America’s No.
