Daily Archive: Tuesday, August 29, 2023

(Trinidad Express) A Belmont woman has appeared before an Arima magistrate charged with the murder of Guyanese accountant Reagan Henderson Reece.

Traffic enforcement efforts by Police ranks in Regional Division Three have resulted in thirty-three persons being arrested and placed before the court, for Driving Under the Influence.

Speaking at the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Conference 2023 yesterday, President Irfaan Ali stressed that all issues raised by village leaders are to be addressed and as such, permanent secretaries from the various government ministries are to be present tomorrow.

Chinese Landing yesterday took its case against mining on its lands to the National Toshaos Council (NTC) conference and blasted the government response to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) resolution calling for precautionary measures to protect villagers.

By Deneita Fredericks The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is now seeking legal advice in an effort to recoup $10 million from F&H Com-puter Supplies and Mer-chandisers, following the procurement of parts for two garbage compactors that did not meet the specifications of the council.

By Joseph Allen Just two weeks after the Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill stated that he was planning to have Trinidad-based Kallco Guyana Inc dismissed from the Dennis Street project for non-performance, the company has been given the green light to resume work with a new deadline.

(Trinidad Guardian) NESC Technical Institute (formerly National Energy Skills Center) signed Statements of Intent with three Guyanese technical institutes on Wednesday at the culmination of a three-day visit to Trinidad by principals and faculty from Guyana.

Carlo ‘Beast’ Evans, a 32-year-old fisherman of Lot A Rosignol Village, West Bank Berbice who was arrested on 24th August, 2023 by Guyanese police after he was extradited here by Surinamese authorities, was charged yesterday with murder in the course of or furtherance of a robbery of Rosignol businessman, Tony Bishnauth.

Nine players from Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica departed local shores yesterday en route to Barbados where they will join the rest of the Guyana Amazon Warriors Women’s team for the upcoming Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL).

Following a recent report in Stabroek News that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will be advertising the vacancies existing in the judiciary and magistracy, Attorney General (AG) Anil Nandlall SC said it augurs well for transparency and accountability. 

(Reuters) – Trinbago Knight Riders became the first cricket team to receive a red card on Sunday, with Sunil Narine paying the penalty for his team’s slow overs-rate in a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) match.

A 35-year-old miner of Isseneru Village, Middle Mazaruni River, Region Seven, died in a boat accident on Sunday evening.

Feaz Baksh Saturday bowled the Albion Cricket Club to a seven-wicket win over Port Mourant Cricket Club in the final of the Zulfikar Mustapha U15 tournament at the Port Mourant Community Development Centre ground.

Over 100 young cricketers participated recently in two clinics organized by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) and sponsored by overseas-based Dr.

Residents of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam yesterday took matters into their own hands after a woman was allegedly attacked by her partner.

Denzel Smith, who was fighting for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital for over two weeks after he was struck by a motorcar on August 9 while crossing the Mocha to Diamond new access road, succumbed on Saturday night.

GUANIMAR, Cuba, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Idalia lashed western Cuba and was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane today as it crawled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, where officials ordered evacuations and urged residents to prepare in advance of an expected Wednesday morning landfall.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Left-hander Nicholas Pooran was the catalyst as Trinbago Knight Riders finally kick-started their Caribbean Premier League campaign with an emphatic six-wicket victory over beleaguered St Kitts and Nevis Patriots here late Sunday.

Marusia Persaud, a 44-year-old housewife of Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, was arrested on Sunday for possession of 22 grammes of cannabis during an intelligence-led operation.

(Reuters) – A campus police officer chased a white gunman off Florida’s first historically Black university a few minutes before the shooter killed three Black people at a discount store, the school’s president said Monday, two days after the attack.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s High Court prosecutor yesterday opened a preliminary investigation into whether national soccer chief Luis Rubiales might have committed an act of sexual aggression when he grabbed player Jenni Hermoso and kissed her on the lips after Spain’s victory in the women’s World Cup.

Forty-seven-year-old Faye Matthews, a hairdresser, of Lot 9 D’Urban Street, Lodge, Georgetown, and Parinna Jardin of Lot 356 Schoonord Village, West Bank Demerara, yesterday appeared virtually at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Rhondell Weever where they were charged with using abusive and threatening language.

Dear Editor, From the outset, please allow me to extend heartfelt commiserations to the bereaved families who continue to suffer due to the road carnage.

TRIPOLI/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Libya’s prime minister sacked Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush yesterday in an effort to contain a growing furore over Mangoush’s meeting with her Israeli counterpart last week, which prompted protests overnight in several Libyan cities.

Ithaca upset defending champion Paradise 3-1 when the Berbice Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Sunday evening at the Rosignol Community ground.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday its troops had liberated the southeastern settlement of Robotyne and were trying to push farther south in their two-month-old counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – World number one Iga Swiatek got the defence of her U.S.

With a combination of years of experience and young leadership in the Chairman and Vice Chairman, the Canefield/ Enterprise Neighbourhood Democratic Council will be working around the clock to improve the villages that fall within the NDC with their main goal being to make the lives of residents as “comfortable” as possible.

Dear Editor,                                                                                        The online edition of your newspaper on Saturday 26th August 2023, carried a story about a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Central Housing and Planning Authority and the South Atlantic Logistics and General Services Inc.

Ricardo Ramsaroop, a 27-year-old barber from Bella Dam, West Bank Demerara, was arrested by Police yesterday after he was found to be in possession of suspected marijuana.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) was hit by a technical problem for several hours on Monday, causing widespread disruption to flights in UK airspace that it said would continue for some time even though the issue was fixed.

(Reuters) – New Zealand coach Gary Stead said he will give Kane Williamson every chance to prove his fitness over the two weeks before the World Cup squad is named but conceded the Black Caps captain still had a long way to go.

Dear Editor, Mortality salience is the awareness by individuals that their death is inevitable.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s police chief, Frantz Elbe, said yesterday he would launch an operation to recover the bodies of followers of an evangelical minister who led a deadly protest against a heavily armed gang controlling a suburb of the capital.

For the past week, police have been trying to identify the suspected male human skeletal remains discovered by a Stewartville labourer in an abandoned two-storey wooden building at Uitvlugt Estate road, West Coast Demerara on August 18th.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will visit Vietnam next month to meet with top officials on issues ranging from technology and the economy to regional stability and climate change, as Washington eyes closer ties in a region where China looms large.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s supreme electoral tribunal on Monday ratified the victory of centre-left candidate Bernardo Arevalo in the country’s presidential election even as a new bid to suspend his party sowed fresh confusion about the fraught process.

Dear Editor, The hosting of the 2023 Annual National Toshaos Council (NTC) Confer-ence in Georgetown is coming at a very exciting and important juncture in hinterland and indigenous development in our country.

(Reuters) – All-rounder Jimmy Neesham will skip New Zealand’s Twenty20 series against England to return home for the birth of his first child, the team said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 29-year-old hospital attendant was killed in the parking lot of his workplace early yesterday morning.

Dear Editor, Comfort zones are the enemies of progress. A comfort zone can bring an implementation plan to a halt.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. rapper Eminem has asked Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a multimillionaire former biotech executive, to not use his music during his presidential campaign, according to a letter disclosed on Monday.

(Reuters) – Experienced wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade has replaced injured all-rounder Glenn Maxwell in the Australia squad for the limited overs tour of South Africa, the team said yesterday.

A fire that was caused by a leaking hose on a gas cylinder last Friday destroyed a bar at 270 Tabatinga, Lethem, Region Nine, leaving three persons homeless.

Dear Editor, I make a simple argument: Government is responsible for these lives lost on the road.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump said on Monday he would appeal the scheduling of a March 2024 trial over his alleged efforts to subvert his 2020 election defeat, though legal experts said such a move was not possible before a verdict is reached in the case.

The Charlotte Hornets and forward P.J. Washington have agreed on a three-year contract worth up to $48 million, according to multiple media reports on Saturday.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Heavy rains in Chile’s central south farming region last week may have caused at least $1 billion in losses, according to estimates by authorities and the industry.

By Lili Fuhr BERLIN – As the world grapples with an unprecedented confluence of devastating floods, wildfires, and droughts, the debate about how to address the escalating climate crisis is increasingly distorted by big-business interests peddling false remedies and promoting deceptive narratives.

Amid the continuing carnage on the roads, the barefaced `shakedowns’ and pockets of shocking lawlessness that obtain in the administration of road traffic by members of the Guyana Police Force are the worst kept ‘secrets’ of the country’s wider law enforcement regime.

In an effort to help equip students with the necessary skills to survive and thrive in an increasingly data-driven world, the Bureau of Statistics hosted sixteen students from secondary schools across Georgetown at its first-ever Data Science Camp, a release from the Bureau informed yesterday.