Daily Archive: Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The Amazon Warriors will have a last chance to make the finals when they tomorrow  play the winner of the eliminator this afternoon between the Jamaica Tallawahs and the St Lucia Kings.

A man is now dead after a truck collided with him and drove over his head along Mandela Avenue on Monday night.

Amel Griffith, who represented Guyana, snatched the Miss Cricket Carnival Queen title at the inaugural Cricket Carnival Pageant, which took place last evening at the National Cultural Centre. 

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan The concept of a Caribbean Civilization has been championed in our region, but needs to be more widely taught and disseminated.

STOCKHOLM/COPENHAGEN,  (Reuters) – European countries today scrambled to investigate unexplained leaks in two Russian gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea near Sweden and Denmark, infrastructure at the heart of an energy crisis since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Uruguay’s police arrested the head of the president’s personal security detail on Monday at the presidential residence for allegedly participating in a scheme to help possibly hundreds of Russian nationals illegally obtain Uruguayan passports.

(Trinidad Guardian) Motorists began paying higher prices for Premium, Super and Diesel fuel, and kerosene, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The body of Merissa Edwards has been found in a drain in Couva.

Parents and teachers yesterday staged a peaceful protest outside the Santa Rosa Primary School, in the Moruca Sub-Region, of Region One, calling on authorities to urgently fix the deteriorating school building.

Cleavaughn Hamilton and his friend Ranachal Singh have both been sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 2016 killing of Hamilton’s former partner and the mother of his son, Simone Hackett.

Andray Duncan, one of the three men being sought by police in connection with the probe of the theft of $400 million in gold, yesterday turned himself in for questioning, his attorney, Eusi Anderson, said.

Detective Sergeant Dion Bascom, who made explosive allegations of corruption in the Guyana Police Force (GPF), has been interdicted from duty and placed on half pay following his arraignment earlier in the month on cybercrime charges.

Cane harvesters attached to the Blairmont Estate yesterday discovered a decomposed body floating in a trench at the Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice backdam. 

Ex-soldier Winston Haynes, who was charged with raping a young woman at base Camp Stephenson, Timehri, back in 2017, has been discharged of the offence after a no-case submission was upheld in his favour.

A taxi driver was on Monday slapped with two cybercrime charges for sharing a teacher’s private photographs.

Two nights ago the Guyana Amazon Warriors and the Barbados Royals clashed in the group stages of the Caribbean Premier League with a second place finish for Guyana and a chance to play the Barbados Royals again at stake.

A 17-year-old girl drowned on Sunday during a family outing at Wismar Creek.

Shawn Thomas, also known as Troy Richards and ‘Cutty,’ and Ackime Richards, also known as ‘Akeem,’ are wanted by the police in connection with the murder of a young miner, who was fatally shot last Thursday at a Sand Hill Landing, Cuyuni River shop.

Whenever the calendar flips to November, long distance runners fine tune their training to compete in the lucrative South American 10k road race.

 ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) today named the three “Rising Stars Team of the Tournament” from the recent Rising Stars Under-19, Under-17 and Under-15 Championships.

 A Wismar, Linden businessman is now hospitalised after being shot several times about his body after a misunderstanding with another man last Friday.

Dear Editor, When Mr. Aubrey Norton was elected the new leader of PNCR in December 2021 having defeated former PNCR strongman, Joseph Harmon, that moment signalled a new direction of the Party.

Dear Editor, President Ali’s point that the CPL is more than about cricket has meaning at several levels.

I am really disappointed to read in the Kaieteur News an article titled “Delinquent, dysfunctional AAG.” 

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has issued a wanted bulletin for businessman Dorwain Bess, who has been linked to an alleged plot to extort another city businessman.

The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is working to prepare a preliminary report on its findings from the probe into the incident where a Jags Aviation plane ran off the runway at the Eteringbang Airstrip last Thursday.

Dear Editor, We wish to draw your attention to a letter titled, Guyana must rethink its membership in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which appeared in the Stabroek News on August 9, 2022, and authored by Swami Aksharananda.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India captain Rohit Sharma acknowledges bowling in the death overs remains a concern for them but backed Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel to regain their mojo ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia next month.

Dear Editor, Having served for over 50 years as a teacher/educator in relation to mathematics, I am not surprised when I am asked how could I be or aspire to be a poet.

Hire car and minibus operators in Region Two are being urged to cooperate with the decision of the Anna Regina Town Council (ARTC) to demarcate the Anna Regina car park as part of a move to regularise their operations.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The governors of the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB) voted on Monday to fire Mauricio Claver-Carone, two people with knowledge of the vote said, after an investigation showed the only American president in the bank’s 62-year history had an intimate relationship with a subordinate.

(Reuters) – England’s limited-overs coach Matthew Mott said Jos Buttler is itching to make his return from injury during their seven-match series in Pakistan but they will not take any risks with the batsman so close to the Twenty20 World Cup.

(Reuters) – World chess champion Magnus Carlsen said yesterday he believed Hans Niemann had “cheated more – and more recently – than he has publicly admitted”, adding he no longer wanted to play against the American and any rivals who repeatedly cheated in the past.

Over 16 households in Burma, Region Five, are expected to benefit from the upgrade of the Champagne Road, which was recently completed.

Dear Editor, This is a plea from a physically indisposed subscriber to ask the Distribution Department to issue a written instruction to delivery personnel to ensure that the daily paper is placed under the house, as shown in the attached photo; and not on the gate where it was fixed twice on Sunday 25 and got soaked by the rain.

(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S.

Dear Editor, I want to comment on your editorial “The Vanishing Art Of Handwritten Letters”….I

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Charlie Dean’s controversial run-out on Saturday prompted heated debate about whether the dismissal was in the spirit of the game but the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has said the onus is on batters not to leave the crease at the non-striker’s end too soon.

A new $10.5 million health centre was commissioned at Number 7 Village, West Coast Berbice last Wednesday.

KYIV (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday no decision had been taken on whether to seal Russia’s borders to stop an exodus of military-aged men fleeing the country, after days of chaotic scenes during its first military mobilisation since World War Two.

(Trinidad Express) Teachers have been blocked by the Industrial Court from resting and reflecting at home today (yesterday Monday) and at least until November 24.

(Trinidad Express) Former United States prosecutor Perry Kendall Jr is working with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) to strengthen its prosecution of gang members in this country.

Pupils of the Mocha/ Arcadia Primary School last Wednesday received 20 electrical fans and two Samsung smart televisions in keeping with a promise made by President Irfaan Ali.

Dear Editor, The age-old problem of alcohol and its abuse now surrounds the University of Guyana’s 60th anniversary and its El Dorado Rum sponsor.

(Reuters) – Australia head coach Andrew McDonald said he has enough quality at his disposal to deal with any injury issues ahead of their Twenty20 World Cup title defence on home soil next month.

QAMISHLI, Syria, (Reuters) – Hundreds of women protested in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria on Monday over the death of an Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of Iran’s morality police, with some cutting their hair and burning headscarves in an echo of demonstrations in Iran.

’Internal issues’ within the Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) were the determining factors which ultimately disqualified the athletes from competing at the South American Games which gets underway on October 1 in Paraguay.

(Trinidad Guardian) Concerns that 39-year-old Merissa Edwards may not be found alive have deepened, following the death of her boyfriend.

Dear Editor, I like a lot of provisions in our Local Content law and support its much-needed presence. 

The Ministry of Health did not report any new COVID-19 cases on Monday.

The season of the General Assembly is like no other in the timetable of the United Nations.

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks and oil prices declined in choppy trading on Monday, even as the dollar and Treasury yields rose, as Wall Street digested a raft of what it read as negative macroeconomic news.