Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 25, 2020

(Jamaica Observer) Mia Dailey, the one-year-old who was shot by gunmen as they slaughtered a man at West Street in downtown Kingston Sunday morning, is responding after surgery, a relative told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.“She’s

(Jamaica Gleaner) Alana McKenzie, the widow of school bus driver Rayon McKenzie who was murdered in Hanover yesterday, cried openly as the realisation sank in that her late husband would not be around to play a part in the life of the child in her womb who was due to be born in a few weeks.

(Trinidad Guardian) To­ba­go en­joyed rel­a­tive­ly safe J’Ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions as on­ly mi­nor in­ci­dents were re­port­ed by po­lice.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad-born American rapper Nicki Minaj was yesterday urged to do a soca song with soca stars Machel Montano and Neil “Iwer” George for Carnival 2021.

Operations across the sugar industry have been significantly affected today as thousands of sugar workers from Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt Estates as well as the GuySuCo Research Unit have stayed away from work to protest the increase in pay being offered by the GuySuCo, the sugar union GAWU says.

The police say they are investigating the murder of Joseph Calistro, 26, a miner of Port Kaituma, NWD which occurred on Sunday February 23, 2020 at 14 Miles, NWD allegedly by a 25 -year -old miner, of Port Kaituma NWD, who has since been detained.

GECOM Chair Justice (rtd) Claudette Singh today addressing observers here for the March 2 general elections.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – At least seven people have been killed and around 150 injured in clashes between opposing groups in New Delhi, a police official told Reuters today, as riots in parts of the city overshadowed U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Two police officers are among three people charged with trafficking in person (child) for the purpose of exploitation, under Section 18 of the Trafficking in Persons Act.

The Head of the Commonwealth Observer Mission, former Barbadian Prime Minister, Owen Arthur yesterday called on all stakeholders to “demonstrate commitment to a peaceful, transparent, credible and inclusive election”.

A three-year-old girl drowned while swimming in the Pegasus Hotel pool yesterday afternoon and police have launched an investigation.

The Citizenship Initiative’s (TCI) Ruel Johnson yesterday lashed out at hypocrisy in the political directorate on the question of decriminalising gay sex.

A 35-year-old Essequibo resident lost his life on Sunday night after he allegedly collided with a car while riding his motorcycle along the Adventure Public Road, Essequibo Coast.

A ban on single-use plastics as well as the establishment of regional teams to respond to wildlife and environmental issues are among the plans of three of the small political parties contesting the March 2nd general elections.

A 15-year-old pillion rider is now dead while his friend was injured after the motorcycle they were on crashed into a car on Dennis Street, Sophia early yesterday morning.

The score-line read 4-3 at the sound of the final whistle in Guyana’s favour on Sunday as a Veteran hockey team secured an empathic triumph over host Canada Red in the final of the Field Hockey Canada International Masters indoor tournament.

The police are investigating the death of a man, whose body was discovered in a trench at Belmont, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara on Sunday morning.

 Guyana’s badminton aces and siblings Narayan and Priyanna Ramdhani were presented with the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) awards Saturday.

Investigators were able to positively identify the suspects who shot and killed Cuban butcher Ofredis Duarte Campos during an attempted robbery last week based on CCTV footage obtained, Commander of Region 4(A) Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas said.

A career-best gross of 77 from Joaan Deo saw her winning the inaugural Sterling Products-sponsored Igloo tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club Saturday.

A proposal by Guyana-born Mayor of Purcellville, Kwame Fraser for a sister city relationship with Linden has been put on hold after dissent emerged in Fraser’s council.

Albion Community Center Cricket Club has built a reputation of producing some of the best spinners in Berbice and Gourav Ramesh is the latest to come through the ranks.

Twenty-four residents of Kwakwani, in Region Ten, received land leases from the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) last Friday.

Canje and Friendship secured easy victories, when the eighth annual Milo Secondary Schools football competition  resumed yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The relatives of the two Corentyne fishermen who have been missing since a piracy attack on their boat last October are calling on the authorities to conduct DNA testing on the skeletal remains found at the West Coast Berbice foreshore Friday last to determine if there is a match.

Four more track and field athletes potentially booked their tickets to compete at the 49th edition of the CARIFTA Games in Bermuda Easter weekend following the second trials on Saturday at the National Track and Field Centre.

Guyana Fire Service (GFS) investigators have concluded that the fire which destroyed the Sachi Superstore on Regent Street, Georgetown last Monday was an act of arson.

Team Evolution defied the odds to finish first and second in yesterday’s Linden Forbes Burnham Memorial Two-Stage road race.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of sexual assault and rape in a New York court yesterday and taken off to jail in handcuffs, a victory for the #MeToo movement that inspired women to publicly accuse powerful men of misconduct.

Investigators are still working to determine who opened fire on Tuesday leaving Randy Bowen dead and his accomplice injured after they robbed a woman of her handbag in Campbellville.

Dear Editor, Alleviating and reducing poverty is the touchstone to determining governance and by far the most important criteria by which our political leaders must be judged from Guyana’s Independence to now.

Dear Editor, The Georgetown Mayor and City Council is filled with smart people.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Shai Hope, who made his ninth ODI hundred in the series opener which the West Indies lost to Sri Lanka, is aiming to repeat his outstanding performance but hoping for a different result when his side takes on the hosts in their second match tomorrow.

BEIJING/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – The coronavirus death toll climbed to seven in Italy yesterday and several Middle East countries were dealing with their first infections, sending markets into a tailspin over fears of a global pandemic even as China eased curbs with no new cases reported in Beijing and other cities.

Schools across the capital city celebrated Guyana’s 50th republic anniversary last Friday, with cultural songs and dances and presentations on the history of the Mashramani celebrations.

Dear Editor, I refer to the letter titled, `ANUG can win without securing majority or plurality of the votes at the elections’ (SN February 24). 

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Jamaica Scorpions will be without off-spinners Peat Salmon and John Campbell, after the two were suspended because of illegal bowling actions.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The Trump administration rolled out a new immigration policy yesterday that bars people deemed likely to require government benefits such as housing and food assistance from obtaining permanent residency in the United States.

Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for the supply of newborn care packages for mothers and children in Region 9.

Dear Editor, Of course, people are free to vote as they please.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – the Barbados Pride cricket team and the Guyana Jaguars’ Leon Johnson and Nial Smith have been penalized for breaching the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Code of Conduct during the first half of the Regional Four-Day Championship, CWI confirmed yesterday.

Nine foreign nationals, comprising six Haitian citizens and three Cuban citizens, were fined and ordered de-ported last Friday after they admitted to illegally departing from Guyana.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Teck Resources Ltd’s surprise decision to cancel a planned C$20.6 billion ($15.6 billion) oil sands mine in northern Alberta, citing uncertainty about Canada’s climate policy, underscores a global struggle to balance energy growth with environmental concerns.

Dear Editor, If with less than a week to go before General and Regional Elections neither David Granger nor his minions will tell you, me or anyone else how much money was earned from Guyana’s first lift of ‘profit-oil’, I must beg the question of what level of brazenness has Granger attained? 

The Golden Jaguars were dumped out the CONCACAF men’s U20 football qualifiers  going down to hosts Nicaragua 0-1 Sunday at the Nicaragua National Stadium.

TYENDINAGA, Ontario,  (Reuters) – Police yesterday made 10 arrests and cleared a rail blockade by an indigenous group in eastern Canada that had been stopping freight and passenger traffic for almost three weeks on one of the country’s busiest lines.

(Jamaica Observer) LUCEA, Hanover — Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday warned parents of wayward children that, if necessary, the Government will introduce legislation to have them pay for their children’s bad behaviour.

A man was remanded to prison on Friday after being charged with assaulting a policeman.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – Already bruised from their loss in the One-Day International (ODI) series opener on Saturday, West Indies were slapped with a fine for maintaining a slow over-rate in the match against Sri Lanka.

By  Alexander Friedman JACKSON, WYOMING – For the last 50 years, almost every US presidential election has brought a new swing of the national political pendulum.

One of the more interesting aspects of the recently ended Heads of Government meeting, was the positive tone of the remarks made by CARICOM’s ad interim Chair, Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.

A man was on Friday handed a three-month sentence for assaulting a woman.

For the ninth time, as the Jubilee/Oily Election Campaign turns furiously into the homestretch to the March 2nd tapes, we invite you to spare some moments for smiles, laughs, the humour of the campaign.

Dear Editor, I have noted that among the honourees of the 2020 national awards is Mr.

We have been, for many months now, in the grip of a season of elevated madness on our roads, a period characterized by road use behaviour that has been characterized by ever increasing levels of recklessness, to which the traffic authorities appear to have no serious response, so that – or at least so it seems – we must watch the lunacy and its consequences play out to grim endings and attendant grief, stricken, it seems, by a powerlessness to bring these horrific anomalies under at least some reasonable measure of control.