Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 15, 2020

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also visit Suriname, Brazil and Colombia during his upcoming trip that will also include Guyana, according to a statement today from the US State Department.

(Jamaica Star) Karen scrolls through her cell phone as she lays on her bed beside her husband, Shawn.

(Jamaica Star) Barbados has announced its intention to become a republic and remove Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state by November next year.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also visit Suriname on Thursday before arriving in Guyana.

A Kilcoy, Corentyne fisherman was fatally stabbed last evening. Dead is Alexander Yhap, also known as ‘John’, 25, who sustained at least three stab wounds.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Germany awarded $745 million in funding to biotech firms BioNTech and CureVac today to speed up work on COVID-19 vaccines and expand German production capacity.

 (Reuters) – The city government of Louisville, Kentucky, is expected to announce today a financial settlement with the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman fatally shot by police in March, the Courier Journal reported on Tuesday.

Investigators probing the murders of teenaged cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry have determined that they were not killed at the site where the bodies were found, while the suspects who had been kept in custody for questioning about the crime have all been released but two others are being sought.

One of the suspects held by the police in connection with the murder of Bath Settlement businessman Mohamed Haniff, who was brutally beaten and chopped during a home invasion on Friday night, has confessed to the crime and implicated the now dead man’s wife, police have said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Connecticut filed a lawsuit yesterday against oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp for misleading the public over the impacts of climate change, becoming the latest state to target the fossil fuel industry for violating state consumer protection laws.

Yuri Garcia Dominguez and his wife Ateeka Ishmael, the couple accused of running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of persons, were faced with seven additional charges yesterday.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic government has made no formal announcement as to the nature and purpose of a planned visit by the United States, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.

A Brazilian dredge owner has been fined $12m for destruction of a section of the bank of the Cuyuni River.

As the police probe into the murder of Prettipaul Hargobin widens, one of the suspects who was arrested in relation to the crime has confessed while another and his wife were yesterday charged with the illegal possession of the firearm belonging to Hargobin.

Stafanie Taylor’s team defeated Deandra Dottin’s team by eight runs as the West Indies Women’s team  got into action with their first practice match yesterday.

Chiding the former APNU+AFC administration for the closure of sugar estates during its term in office, Member of Parliament (MP) Seepaul Narine yesterday reassured that the new PPP/C-led government will be reopening them.

The police are probing the discoveries of two aircraft, one of which had on board the body of a dead man, suspected to be a foreign national and a quantity of suspected cocaine.

(Reuters) – Britain’s Simon Yates claimed overall victory in the Tirreno Adriatico after holding off his rivals in the final stage time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto yesterday.

As the new school year began virtually for many students across the country, the Ministry of Education rolled out programmes on the Guyana Learning Channel to reach those students who cannot access the internet.

St. John’s Antigua: The timeline for consultation and implementation of the recommendations of the Wehby Report has been established by Cricket West Indies (CWI) a release from CWI stated yesterday.

The weight of a Game 7 contest will weigh more heavily on the Los Angeles Clippers, the Denver Nuggets believe.

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), on 1st September 2020, signed an agreement for a $6M grant which will be used to determine the feasibility of establishing a Consolidated Log Yard (CLY) operation in Guyana.

(Reuters) – England fast bowler Jofra Archer has said they have not forgotten about the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement after former West Indies bowler Michael Holding criticised the country’s board (ECB) when players stopped taking a knee before matches.

`It has taken good and special care of some interest groups, but left 90% of the people out altogether – particularly the working class and poor’ APNU+AFC MP Raphael Trotman and Minister in the Ministry of Public Works Deodat Indar yesterday clashed over  the merits of Budget 2020 as debate  on the long-delayed presentation began at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mauricio Claver-Carone, the first U.S. citizen elected to lead Latin America’s main development bank, vowed yesterday to focus on strengthening its funding base and building more unity in the region after a contentious election.

Guyana has recorded 31 new cases of the novel coronavirus, with the cases being recorded in eight of the ten administrative regions.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – Kolkata Knight Riders superstars Andre Russell and Sunil Narine are the latest players from the just-concluded Caribbean Premier League to arrive for the historic Indian Premier League scheduled to bowl off next weekend.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court yesterday sided with President Donald Trump over his administration’s decision to end humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, many of whom have lived in the United States for decades.

West Indies Women’s team batters will have to their skill with the bat if they are to come out on top in the Vitality T20I series against England later this month.

Dear Editor, In Stabroek News of 2020.09.14, you published a letter by Deodat Indar, Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, under the headline, `Emergency budget is a step in the right direction.’

The Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL)  on Sunday said that violence in the society has reached unacceptable levels.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lashed out at the European Union yesterday as he won initial approval for a plan to breach the Brexit treaty, saying the move was needed because the bloc had refused to take a “revolver off the table” in trade talks.

Says Emmerson Campbell The conversation for the safe reopening of gyms and fitness centres in Guyana should have started ‘yesterday’.

Dear Editor, This year marks the 75th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War.

Residents of Holmes Stelling, in Tiger Bay, Georgetown, believe that ongoing work at the Avinash Complex on Water Street is putting them at risk and want authorities to intervene.

The Guyana Chess Federation, (GCF), recently rolled out it free ChessKids online schools programme in partnership with CHESSKID.COM

New opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Amanza Walton-Desir yesterday voiced concern over the PPP/C-led government’s recent foreign policy decisions and warned against the country being steered by the United States into foreign interventions that would be to its detriment.

Dear Editor, It is with great reluctance that I drew up a petition to defund the Ethnic Relations Commission.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s chief prosecutor Tarek Saab yesterday announced charges of terrorism and weapons trafficking against an alleged U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s so-called dirty list, one of the nation’s most powerful weapons against slave labour, is legal and can proceed, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A 33-year-old man is expected to appear before a Sangre Grande Magistrate today charged with two counts of cruelty to two children.

Dear Editor, In a letter which appeared in SN on Sept.

National U17 batsman continued a remarkable run scoring another century to give Kaieteur Cricket Club a six-wicket win over Hurricanes Saturday.

Dear Editor, The people of Guyana must now come out and boldly say “No to Payara & yes to renegotiation”.

Over the last twelve months the Caribbean has been able to demonstrate through the ballot box that its democracies remain strong.

With preparations now underway to facilitate the visit here later this week by the United States’ Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, there has been a brisk burst of chatter in some quarters over the significance of his coming here and just what the key issues on the agenda for the visit might be.

(Reuters) – South Africa’s Olympic 400 metres champion Wayde van Niekerk will make his long-awaited return to the track when he competes at the rescheduled Gala dei Castelli in Bellinzona, Switzerland today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Scientists said yesterday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth.

(Trinidad Express) Infamous “beach boaster” Samantha Ramischand has sought legal advice.