Daily Archive: Friday, February 21, 2020

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) today announced that the company’s kiosk in the Giftland Mall has started solely cashless bill payments at the location following a gunpoint robbery.

The Ministry of the Presidency today said that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will, at midnight on Saturday, February 22, 2020, conduct a fireworks display in the vicinity of the Stabroek Square in observance of Guyana’s 50th Republic Anniversary.

The April 2018 piracy attack off of Suriname which claimed the lives of at least 12 Guyanese was a well-organised operation as a result of a turf war over fishing grounds.

(Jamaica Star) Sick and tired of the number of killings taking place in the country, Percival LaTouche, president of the Association for the Re-settlement of Returning Residents, said it is time the Government starts hanging murderers.

As voting by the ranks of the disciplined services proceeds, all stakeholders have expressed satisfaction with the process so far.

According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), President David Granger this morning commended the “smooth voting process” by the disciplined services who are casting their ballots for the upcoming General and Regional Elections today.

Voting by the Joint Services began this morning ahead of the March 2nd general elections.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of 7 East, Greater Portmore, were left stunned between midnight Thursday and early Friday morning after a dramatic incident, featuring a love triangle among a soldier; his wife, a cop; and another policeman – who is now nursing a gunshot wound – unfolded in their usually quiet community.

(Trinidad Express) The seven children of a woman who died last month have petitioned the court to have another sister hand over her jewelry to them.

(Trinidad Express) On Valentine’s Day, five days before she was shot twice in the chest, woman police officer Nicolette Persad refused a marriage proposal.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Leg-spinner Poonam Yadav bamboozled Australia as India opened the seventh edition of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup with a stunning upset of the reigning champions and tournament hosts by 17 runs at Sydney Showground today.

DAEGU, South Korea,  (Reuters) – The malls and restaurants in Daegu were empty and streets eerily quiet today after the number of cases of coronavirus in South Korea doubled overnight to 204, almost all of them in and around the fourth largest city.

(Trinidad Express) Terri Lyons is the 2020 National Calypso Monarch, having dethroned defending monarch, Ronaldo London who placed 12th.

(Trinidad Express) The criminals waited until late, until a doubles vending couple had sold most of their food, before walking in to take their money.

Guyana Industrial Minerals (GINMIN), a subsidiary of United States-based First Bauxite (FBX), yesterday commissioned its mine and processing plant at Bonasika, Demerara River, in Region Three, and pledged that the US$100 million investment would be a world-class operation.

NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – Roston Chase struck an imperious hundred as West Indies warmed up for tomorrow’s opening One Day International with a dominant six-wicket victory over the Sri Lanka Board President’s XI here yesterday.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) conducted the CONCACAF Executive Mentorship Programme from February 15th-16th at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston.

The launch of a US$2m agro-processing centre and cold storage bond yesterday is only the beginning of the transformation of the shuttered Wales Sugar Estate into a 200-acre Agro-Industrial Park which will see residents from nearby villages benefiting from the investment.

Young Stars of Agricola and Lack ah Scene will battle for the coveted ‘Let’s Bet Sports’ Mocha Village Cup Streetball Championship, after securing semifinal wins on Wednesday at the Mocha hardcourt tarmac.

There are pending enquiries from over 100 United States-based businesses about setting up operations in Guyana, Political and Economic Affairs Chief at the United States Embassy in Georgetown, Alexandra King Pile disclosed yesterday.

Topp XX and Coomacka will contest the inaugural Jermin and Family-sponsored and coordinated ‘Mash Cup’ final this evening following semifinal wins on Wednesday at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, Linden.

In preparation for the start of season five of the Elite League, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) hosted a one-day refresher course and information session for the match officials and head coaches who will be participating in the event.

A young Cuban family is in a state of shock after their sole breadwinner, a butcher of Rossignol Butchery was gunned down yesterday morning in a suspected robbery attempt while on his way to work.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) last night condemned the recent decision of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to reduce the number of Polling Places especially in the Party’s strongholds.

(CWI) West Indies Men’s and Women’s teams will both be in action tomorrow as they start their bids to supremacy in two different parts of the world.

Confident that his US$100M Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre project will thrive and insisting that he isn’t threatened by branded hotels being established here,  hotelier Robert Badal yesterday blazed both the past and current governments for  what he called the “alienation” and discriminatory treatment of local investors.

• 813 grants disbursed 2014 -2019 • 78% of clients still in business A packed reception hall at the Regency Suites Hotel in Georgetown on Friday, February 14, witnessed the staging of the first ever awards ceremony hosted by the local Small Business Bureau (SBB) just over six years after government had teamed up with the Inter-American Development Bank to unveil a US$10 million initiative targeting local resource-starved small businesses by offering loans and grants to their proprietors and providing guarantees for loans secured from local commercial banks.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – West Indies Women star Deandra Dottin has admitted going into depression because of a shoulder injury that kept her off the pitch for more than a year, but said advice from a member of the men’s squad helped her through it.

With Guyana’s General Elections coming shortly  before the International Court of Justice’s  (ICJ) hearings on the Venezuela border controversy, this country’s representative at the deliberations, Sir Shridath Ramphal yesterday appealed for national unity as a demonstration to the world.

The suspect in the 2017 murder of a Plaisance, East Coast Demerara welder, was  arrested on Wednesday by the police and has reportedly confessed to the murder.

More robust financial backing for its member countries is one of the standout undertakings given by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) through its president, Dr Warren Smith, in Barbados last week.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) unveiled a statue of Pele at its headquarters yesterday, the first of a series of events to commemorate June’s 50th anniversary of the team’s third World Cup triumph.

If she concedes that her own pursuit of a career in creative disciplines arose out of being “first pushed by my mother,” Shonta Noel is quick to add that she had always been aware of the need “to be my own person” rather than to dwell “in the shadow of my mother.”

ZURICH (Reuters) – Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke and the chairman of Qatar-based media group BeIN Sports, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, have been charged in connection with the award of television rights for the World Cup and Confederations Cup, Swiss prosecutors said yesterday.

Shemar Moore and Kevin Rose were yesterday committed to stand trial at the High Court for the murder of Patrick Fraser, called ‘White Boy,’ who was gunned down while liming with friends at an abandoned house at Bagotstown last year.

Local education on the peculiarities of the oil & gas industry are likely to come thick and fast even as Guyana proceeds to reap the anticipated rich returns from it world-class oil find.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – With just one point separating West Indies and Sri Lanka in the ICC One Day International rankings, the skipper of the Caribbean side is heading into their three-match rubber here with expectations of overtaking the hosts in the standings.

Rape accused Stephen McCurdy now faces a possible retrial after a jury was yesterday unable to arrive at a verdict on the indictment levelled against him.

One day before they cast their ballots in the 2020 General and Regional members of the disciplined forces were  the subject of appeals from the two major political parties.

One of the key functions of the Guyana Shop, as we understand it, is to serve as a display and marketing facility to raise awareness of the availability of some local products, mostly foods, beverages, spices and condiments as they become available.

(Reuters) – Heavyweights Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder, who will clash in a highly-anticipated rematch tomorrow, won’t be able to faceoff after today’s weigh-in, a Top Rank Boxing official said.

For more than ten years Marisa Jaisingh has been steadily honing her skills in a wide array of decorating services, not least, what she says is the increasing in-demand skill of balloon artistry and, over time, transforming her talents into a business enterprise which, she says, is paying dividends.

A Port Kaituma businesswoman who is accused of trying to dispose of 3.2 grammes of cocaine before a police search was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $70,000 on a charge of possession of narcotics for trafficking.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa captain Quinton de Kock says both he and Australia batsman David Warner have moved on from their altercation two years ago in a ferociously contested test series that culminated in the “Sandpapergate” scandal.

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BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus yesterday although the rise in infections remained at its slowest pace since January, a downward trend which the World Health Organization (WHO) has called encouraging.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – An independent investigation requested by Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA into the causes of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster that killed 270 people a year ago found the company knew about the problem but failed to deal with it.

LAHORE (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board said yesterday it had suspended batsman Umar Akmal with immediate effect under its anti-corruption code.

Dear Editor, For the last two local government elections I applied to the Elections Commission for a job as temporary election day staff, got trained, did several written assessments and was picked to serve as a Presiding Officer at a small polling station.

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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday sentenced President Donald Trump’s long-time adviser Roger Stone to three years and four months in prison and said his lies to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Pace bowler Kyle Jamieson made a dream start to his test career as he captured two wickets, including that of India captain Virat Kohli, as New Zealand capitalised on winning the toss and bowling on a green Basin Reserve pitch on Friday.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – Bolivia’s electoral body said yesterday that former president Evo Morales was ineligible to run for a Senate position in a May election re-run of a voided vote late last year that sparked a political crisis and led to the leftist leader’s resignation.

Dear Editor, While Hamilton Green is enjoying the good life with a pension and perks in excess of two million dollars a month for service prior to 1990, public servants irrespective of what scale they retired prior to the same period are receiving a pittance of 50% on the minimum scale or $35,000 per month.

Caught in a time-warp our two antediluvian parties revealed their true identities last Thursday.

False alarm: First responders from the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) searching the remains of a house that collapsed at First Street, Campbellville on Wednesday after it was reported to them that a mother and her son had been in the building.

A week ago today the Small Business Bureau (SBB) held its first ever Awards Presentation ceremony to recognize those small businesses which, with its help have been able to grow their enterprises to a level that had won them pleasing levels of recognition and patronage.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States blacklisted five Iranian officials yesterday, accusing them of preventing free and fair elections a day before a parliamentary vote that it branded a “sham.”

When arguments for prison reform and rehabilitation come about, advocates often find that they can be tough sells.

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Barcelona captain Lionel Messi says Neymar remains determined to return to the club and the Argentine wants him to turn them into an all-conquering force again, adding that he does not believe they are good enough at the moment to win the Champions League.

Dear Editor, Thanks for publishing my correspondence of questions captioned `Simple but significant questions for ExxonMobil’ (SN Feb 20, 2020).

(Trinidad Express) A man who relatives said was forced into to a life of crime was killed in an shootout with police on Wednesday night.

GATINEAU, Quebec,  (Reuters) – Time is running out to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Venezuela, which is gripped by a political and economic crisis, members of the Lima Group regional bloc said yesterday.

Look! Enjoy life as Opposition Leader Well obviously the Seasonal Election Campaign Bug has me well-bitten: For I’m all politics today.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 865’s trading results showed consideration of $7,348,114 from 90,616 shares traded in 9 transactions as compared to session 864’s trading results which showed consideration of $9,883,937 from 103,058 shares traded in 26 transactions.