The police today said that Sheldon Benjamin, a 32-year-old mason of Vigilance, ECD, along with two police constables, 29-year-old Albert Beresford (stationed at Clonbrook Police Station) and 22-year-old Julius Cambridge (stationed at Cane Grove Outpost), were all arrested on 2023/01/16 and charged jointly on 2023/01/25 with the following offences:
*** Possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking (Cannabis) Contrary to Section 5(1) (a)7 (i) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Control Act 10/10.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago would pay Venezuela for natural gas produced at an offshore development with humanitarian supplies like food and medicine, Prime Minister Keith Rowley said, to comply with a U.S.
A Rosignol man today opted to plead guilty to fatally stabbing his wife back in November, 2020, when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice before Justice Navindra Singh.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany said today it would supply its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, overcoming misgivings about sending heavy weaponry that Kyiv sees as crucial to defeat Russia’s invasion but Moscow casts as a dangerous provocation.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian students said they would show again a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the government has dismissed as propaganda after a Tuesday campus screening was disrupted by a power cut and intimidation by opponents.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Shah Rukh Khan’s Hindi spy thriller opened to packed movie theatres in India today in one of Bollywood’s top openings on record, despite protests from some religious groups over scenes they deemed obscene.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 16-year-old schoolboy was among three killed yesterday.
Darshan Ramnauth was gunned down opposite his home in St Augustine, while another man named Geno, age unknown, was found a short distance away in the same community.
Guyana is in talks with Qatar, Britain, the United Arab Emirates and India on the possibility of directly allocating offshore blocks for oil and gas exploration in parallel with a bidding round this year, President Irfaan Ali said on Monday in Trinidad, according to Reuters.
The police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for Deonarine Sawh, 65, in relation to the murder of Nazaleen Mohamed of Belfield on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD).
Former Attorney General Basil Williams SC has been unsuccessful in his attempts to avoid being sued in his personal capacity in a defamation claim which former Deputy Solicitor General, Prithima Kissoon, had filed against him.
The Ministry of Housing and Water will be exploring some new measures aimed aiding 42 families of Cameron Dam, West Bank Demerara, in their relocation process.
Culture, Youth and Sport Minister, Charles Ramson Jr., says Guyana’s bid to host the semi-finals and finals of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) from 2022-2024, did not incur a cost to the national coffers.
After facing questions about Guyana’s oil wealth and the amount given to its people so far, President Irfaan Ali last Wednesday shut down a Yarrowkabra woman’s line of questioning and instead, opted to dwell on the improvements his government has ushered in throughout its years in office.
Former Golden Jaguar international Charles ‘Lilly’ Pollard has been reinstated as the head coach of West Demerara outfit Slingerz FC, replacing incumbent Vurlon Mills, who will now serve in the capacity of Assistant Coach.
Major infrastructure works are expected this year, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said yesterday in defence of the government’s $94.4 billion allocation to her sector.
Dear Editor,
The 2023 Budget has invited considerable comments and analyses of the numbers – billions of dollars in respect of a wide range of programmatic activities which the undersigned must admit are competently addressed by eminent experts.
Following IDPADA-G’s move to the Court to order government to pay the remainder of allocated funds for 2022 to the organization, the Attorney General’s Chambers has asked it for a breakdown of specific expenditures over a four-year period.
Dear Editor,
Except for being on Christopher Ram’s programme “Plain Talk,” Channel 9, two Wednesdays ago, and on Sharma’s Justice For All Programme, Channel 6, last Saturday, I spent much of my time from the beginning of this year in deep introspection trying to understand why it is that Leaders everywhere continue making massive mis-steps simply because they disallow themselves the opportunity to learn from the experiences of their predecessors in office.
Dear Editor,
It would be surprising, if not shocking, if the PPP and its cast of the unhearing, unseeing, and unfeeling (unthinking also) are enamoured by SN’s continuing series of the impact of the high cost-of-living.
The private sectors of Guyana and Jamaica are exploring opportunities to deepen trade and investment ties between the two bodies on the back of this country’s lucrative oil and gas sector.
BERLIN/KYIV, (Reuters) – The United States and Germany are poised to provide a significant boost to Kyiv’s war effort with the delivery of heavy battle tanks to Ukraine, sources said, a move Moscow condemned as a “blatant provocation”.
Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn yesterday condemned the arson attack which destroyed Christ Church Secondary School and warned of the severe penalties that face the perpetrator/s.
The Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) says that Leguan and Wakenaam commuters can now make online bookings to reserve spaces on the ferry for their vehicles.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba said yesterday, urging
“It looks like a concentration camp,” Tapeba, a doctor appointed to the position by Brazil’s new government, said in a radio interview.
(Reuters) – Three people were killed in a shooting at a convenience store in central Washington state early yesterday, police said, and the suspect has died after an hours-long manhunt.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday issued wanted bulletins for two Brazilian nationals who they say allegedly committed the offence of trafficking in narcotics on December 11, 2022.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, CMC – Cameos from West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder and Kyle Mayers went in vain as Faf du Plessis plundered an unbeaten hundred to fire Joburg Super Kings to a comprehensive eight-wicket win over Durban Super Giants here yesterday.
Jalen Green scored 11 of his career-high 42 points in the fourth quarter and the Houston Rockets held on for a 119-114 home victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, snapping a 13-game losing skid.
(Trinidad Express) Three members of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, charged with murder, appeared virtually before the Port of Spain magistrates’ court yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Out-of-favour Test gloveman Shane Dowrich has been appointed captain for Barbados Pride’s opening two matches of the regional first class championship.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) urged Formula One’s governing body yesterday to allow seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and other drivers to speak freely on ‘political’ issues.
West Indies cricket fans still in hibernation – the sad truth is, they are actually in hiding – recovering from the largest margin of defeat in their 95-year history of Test cricket (the 419-run loss to Australia in the Second Test at the Adelaide Oval last month), might have stirred from their slumber last Thursday, but instantly scurried back to their cocoons upon hearing the latest news.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Ex-West Indies white-ball captains Kieron Pollard and Nicholas Pooran smashed half-centuries and but Sherfane Rutherford responded in similar vein, as Desert Vipers made light work of their target to beat MI Emirates by seven wickets yesterday.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Sebastian Korda thought he had seen the back of a wrist problem that sprang up in Adelaide before subsiding earlier this month, but it returned with a vengeance at the Australian Open yesterday to derail the American in the quarter-finals.
(Reuters) – India captain Rohit Sharma and opener Shubman Gill each scored a century as they defeated New Zealand by 90 runs in the final one-day international in Indore yesterday, completing a 3-0 series sweep.
LONDON, CMC – West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite has been named in the International Cricket Council’s men’s Test-team-of-the-Year, following a successful year with the bat.
ROME, (Reuters) – Lazio humbled AC Milan with a superb 4-0 home victory in Serie A yesterday, extending the champions’ winless run to five games in all competitions.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Victoria Azarenka showed glimpses of the form that took her to the 2012 and 2013 Australian Open titles with a vintage display to reach the semi-finals yesterday, before Stefanos Tsitsipas continued his march towards a maiden Grand Slam title.
(BBC) The “door is open” for Ben Stokes to come out of 50-over retirement and play at the World Cup in India later this year, says England coach Matthew Mott.
HALF MOON BAY, California, (Reuters) – A deadly gun rampage at northern California mushroom farms likely stemmed from a workplace grievance, authorities said yesterday, as new details emerged about the latest of two back-to-back mass shootings that claimed 18 lives in total.
By Nana Akufo-Addo and Jakaya Kikwete
ACCRA – The International Day of Education (January 24) is a good time to reflect on education’s essential role in achieving a peaceful and prosperous world.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday received an update from the Chief Executive Officer of Global Service Inc, George Melville on the progress of the information technology solution for a single window application system.
