Articles published on Wednesday, January 1, 2020
(Jamaica Gleaner) A 15-year-old high-school student successfully underwent surgery at Falmouth Hospital in Trelawny yesterday to remove a bullet from her forehead after she was believed to have been shot by men involved in a gun salute as part of New Year’s celebrations in Mount Salem, St James.
The Guyana Police Force today announce its promotions.
Scene from a horrific crash today at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne. (More details later)
A Johanna North, Black Bush Polder rice farmer succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital this morning to injuries he sustained after he was struck in his head with an iron bar during a beating by two villagers on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) Chief Executive Officer of the Trinidad and Tobago Hospitality Institute (TTHTI) Brian Frontin is just one of many people that has rushed to assist Shania Moonsammy, the owner of the online cake store Oh Yum Yumm.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has posted the Revised List of Electors (RLE) to allow for public scrutiny, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.
Declaring that 2020 will be an “unforgettable year”, President David Granger has announced the launch of a decade of development accompanied by an assortment of pledges for improved living conditions premised on the fruition of the oil economy.
A South Ruimveldt man was stabbed to death by his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend on Monday night.
The Local Government Commission (LGC) has sacked Chief Constable Andrew Foo from the city constabulary with effect from yesterday.
Nigel Hinds and Trophy Stall have collaborated with the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) to sponsor prizes for the Association’s seventh Year End Championship final.
The Golden Grove Community Centre ground will provide the perfect setting for the conclusion of the inaugural 592 Inter-Village Football Festival when Friendship lock horns with home side Golden Grove in a titanic encounter from 22:00hrs tonight.
Two mothers will once more be breaking the New Year behind bars after each was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for their respective parts in a plot to smuggle cocaine out of the country.
Although the recent shutdown experienced in Central Georgetown was a sharp reminder that there is much critical work to be done, Guyana Water Inc (GWI) yesterday reported significant gains for 2019, including attaining 97% and 85% access to potable water by coastal and hinterland regions, respectively, During its end-of-year press engagement, held at the company’s Vlissingen Road headquarters, GWI’s Managing Director Dr.
The decision by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) to issue a notice for the holding of an Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a mockery of Guyana’s judicial system, according to attorney-at-law, Arudranauth Gossai.
Left-handed middle order batsman, Vishaul Singh believes consistent cricket will be key for Guyana Jaguars’ title defence in the Cricket West Indies Professional Cricket League.
The Department of Energy (DE) has awarded a consultancy to Bayphase Ltd for the evaluation of plans for the development of ExxonMobil’s Payara oil field.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Test opener Kraigg Brathwaite leads a strong 13-man squad for Barbados Pride’s opening match of the Regional Four-Day Championship against Windward Islands Volcanoes next month.
A total of 818 officers and ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) have been promoted with effect from January 1, 2020, the GDF said in a press release last night.
Former standout boxer, Junior Christie, yesterday gave a timely shot in the arm in the form of gear to the four Cuba bound pugilists.
The Ministry of Public Telecommunications and M&P Investments Incorporated have signed a $116 Million contract for the renovation of the old call centre in Linden.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies opener Lendl Simmons stroked his second half-century of the Bangladesh Premier League but it failed to prevent leaders Chattogram Challengers from suffering their third defeat of the campaign here yesterday.
Up to December 20th, 2019, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) allocated 1,298 house lots across all administrative regions, surpassing its target of 1,000, according to its Director of Operations Denise King-Tudor.
Dear Editor, On 30 December 2019, Stabroek News reported on a decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice in which the Court opened the way for the parents of a fisherman who died in 2002 by Barama’s negligence to obtain $6.85 million with interest from Barama. Since the story simply reports the Court’s decision, the use of legal jargon to describe what happened cannot be faulted but, as someone who has been involved in this matter for nearly twenty years, I can’t help feeling that the real story of injustice faced by the operation of an indifferent legal system was lost in the jargon. At 18, Mahendra Sanasie was a fisherman whose captain thought his prospects of becoming a fishing boat captain himself in the near future were very good.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – England will be “cautiously” backing a proposal to make four-day tests mandatory from 2023 under the World Test Championship, joining a growing push to shorten the game’s longest format.
A Memorandum of Agreement for revised wages and salaries for Junior and Senior employees for the calendar year 2019 was signed yesterday between the Guyana Power and Light Incorporated (GPL) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial & Industrial Employees (NAACIE) at NAACIE’s Head Office in Kingston.
Dear Editor, As March 02, 2020 draws near, we can rest assured that Guyana as we know it will never be the same again.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – England are thinking of bringing a specialist spinner back into the line-up after going with an all-pace attack in their last two outings, coach Chris Silverwood said as they arrived in Cape Town for their second test against South Africa starting on Friday.
Kevin Allicock, a fisherman who had been convicted in November for wounding a drinking companion, was yesterday sentenced to 12 months behind bars after he was found guilty of shooting at a city constable.
Dear Editor, I refer to the headline article titled, `Ali maintains he’s no Jagdeo puppet’ (SN December 31).
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Protesters angry about U.S. air strikes on Iraq hurled stones and torched a security post at the U.S.
Bhabendra Chandrashakar, businessman, “For the New Year, I’m hoping for the economy and the cost of living to be better because to me it dropped.
The Georgetown Football Club [GFC] will come alive this evening when National champion Fruta Conquerors lock horns with the Guyana Defence Force [GDF] in the final of the Guyana Football Federation [GFF] year-end football tournament from 22:00hrs.
Dear Editor, In her letter, `Not a ‘misunderstanding of caste’ but how to manage ideology’ (SN 22/12/2019), in her usual cavalier and contemptuous style, Professor Kean Gibson claims that the Hindu belief of reincarnation is the cause for suicide among Hindus.
LISBON/JOHANNESBURG/LAGOS, (Reuters) – Angola has frozen the assets of Isabel dos Santos, the billionaire daughter of the country’s previous leader, in a sign that President João Lourenço is taking a tougher line against the former first family.
A Corentyne family of three is now homeless for the new year after a fire of unknown origin completely destroyed their one-storey, two-bedroom house.
In what was dubbed ‘old versus new’ at the Blairmont Community Center Cricket Club (BCCC), the President’s XI defeated Emerging Starters by two runs on Sunday to cap off 2019.
Dear Editor, As we look to this New Year of 2020, all of us are understandably wondering how our year- delayed elections would turn out, and how much of a boon would the recent commencement of the production of crude petroleum far off our shores, bring us.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Wall Street’s major indexes edged higher yesterday on a renewed rally fueled by trade optimism, capping off a decade of handsome returns in which the benchmark S&P 500 rose nearly 190%.
(Reuters) – At the start of this decade, clashes between Arsenal and Manchester United were still potentially title-deciding affairs, but when the pair meet today (New Year’s Day) at the Emirates they will have more modest goals in mind.
Many people use the end of the year to reflect on what they could have done differently to transform their lives.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) notes with concern, indeed anger, an article published in the Guyana Times newspaper of December 28th, 2019, headlined ‘Guyana’s Govt service most corrupt in the Caribbean – IDB’.
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean islanders will be asked to participate in a clinical study on four drugs that are hoped to be potential treatments for COVID-19.
SYDNEY/HONG KONG/LONDON, (Reuters) – The world celebrated the New Year on Wednesday with fireworks displays from Sydney to London, although celebrations were clouded by deadly wildfires in Australia, protests in Hong Kong and India and new nuclear tensions with North Korea.
Shabazz Napier scored eight of his season-high 24 points in overtime as the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped a nine-game home losing streak with a 122-115 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Monday night in Minneapolis.
(Trinidad Express) Police shot four gunmen yesterday afternoon, killing two, minutes after they killed a woman and shot several people including a five-year-old boy.
The death of a longtime canteen operator has plunged past and present University of Guyana (UG) students into mourning.
Twenty years ago today, at the stroke of midnight, the turn of the century, world leaders braced themselves for the start of potential chaos within their borders.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Celtic midfielder Ryan Christie risks a two-match ban after allegedly trying to grab Rangers’ Colombian striker Alfredo Morelos by the genitals in Sunday’s Old Firm clash between the Glasgow sides.
By Bertrand Ramcharan A new Decade offers new vistas, new promise for our Dear Land of Guyana.
Guyana has been in the sugar industry for centuries and has exported high and low level managers and technicians to many countries around the world, yet in a letter last week, Mr.
Dear Editor, The report titled “ Wait No More: Citizens, Red Tape, and Digital Government” confirms that corruption under the APNU+AFC government is rampant and second to none in the Caribbean.
(Trinidad Guardian) Rogue police officers who may have been involved in a plot to “bring down” Police Commissioner Gary Griffith will be under scrutiny as part of the investigation into the murder of purported gang leader Cecil ‘Squeeze’ Skeete.
BEIRUT/TOKYO, (Reuters) – Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said yesterday he had fled to Lebanon to escape a “rigged” justice system in Japan, raising questions about how one of the world’s most-recognised executives had slipped away while on bail.
Seven past employees of the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) were celebrated in a simple ceremony at the Boardroom of the Corporation on Monday.
Tenders were yesterday opened for the construction and delivery of two pontoons for the Georgetown and Vreed-en-Hoop Ferry Stellings, both pontoons were estimated at just over $25 million.
