Daily Archive: Saturday, August 8, 2015

At about 1815h. yesterday, the police say that a motor lorry with a load of lumber and four persons seated on top of the lumber toppled while descending a hill along the Upper Demerara trail.

Investigations are being conducted by the police into a fire that occurred at about 0950h.

Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson today said that the thousands of persons from Timehri North, which the previous administration wanted to displace, will no longer have to move to facilitate the expansion of the airport runway, GINA reported.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart met today with Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon and Tourism Minister Cathy Hughes recently led a small delegation to Canada, in order to update Guyanese in the Diaspora of the Government’s plans and objectives, GINA said.

Aeshwar Deonarine, Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO Administration) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), is seeking time to repay the $27.8M, which was transferred from the PetroCaribe fund to his personal bank account.

A team of ranks from the SWAT Unit has been dispatched to “B” Division (Berbice) to support the Division in its policing strategy, the police said today.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Australia captain Michael Clarke will retire after the final Ashes test against England this month, the cricketer announced on Saturday.

Regan Rodrigues, who police have linked to the weapon that killed political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing, was charged yesterday with his murder.

VAT will not be cut this year as had been promised by APNU+AFC, the biggest miss so far in the 100-day agenda that it had laid out, but Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday assured that the other monetary-related pledges will be kept.

A police investigation into the disappearance of $120M belonging to the Public Service Ministry has now widened after figures show that at least $355M cannot be accounted for, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed yesterday.

Each of the country’s ten administrative regions is now considering its own flag and emblem as part of an initiative by the Ministry of Communities to encourage the regions to develop their own identities.

A well-known restaurateur was murdered in his home yesterday morning, plunging the East Ruimveldt community where he lived and operated his business into mourning.

A city businessman was wounded last night during a shootout with three men who attacked him in an attempted robbery.

Following the handing down of community service sentences to two youths who stole over $9M in electronics and other valuables during a gunpoint hold-up of Golyn & Sons Fashion, the store’s proprietor Mahendra Boodhoo has voiced his dissatisfaction with the punishment meted out.

Ex-policeman Ruel Brandon was yesterday charged with the murder of Davonan Sookram, whose decomposing body was found along the access road at Ruby, East Bank Essequibo last Friday, four days after he went missing.

A mother and daughter accused of selling a quantity of cocaine to a police officer were yesterday refused bail by Magistrate Fabayo Azore.

Taxi driver Wendell Sooklall was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail after he was found guilty of causing the death of a cyclist.

(Reuters) – Soccer’s world governing body FIFA has launched an internal investigation of alleged corruption, two people familiar with the matter said, in a development that may signal greater cooperation with criminal probes by U.S.

Fashion, film, dance and body art are some of the Guyanese expressions that will be presented to the rest of the Caribbean at Carifesta XII in Haiti later this month.

Dyna’s Ravens swept aside Pepsi Sonics by a 71-57 margin in an Open Divisional matchup when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League Qualifying Knockout Tournament continued on Thursday.

InselAir Aruba has alerted the Government of Guyana of its intention to seek compensation for “considerable damages” suffered due to its outgoing flight 8I-971 being denied take off on Thursday.

The captain and one of the crewmembers of the Capt Saif, which capsized in the Waini River last Saturday night, say the vessel was overloaded and warnings about it were not heeded.

NOTTINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Ben Stokes took five wickets to put England on the verge of a famous victory that would win back the Ashes as Australia finished on 241 for seven after a compelling second day of the fourth test at Trent Bridge yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A Shaquana Quintyne half-century and three-wicket hauls from Deandra Dottin and Shakera Selman, helped Barbados beat Jamaica by 32 runs in their opening game of the Regional Women’s Super50 here Thursday.

The family of a 15-year-old Friendship Secondary School student has turned to the public for financial assistance to afford him the opportunity to undergo much needed surgery in Colombia for papilloma on the vocal cords.

Rajendra Chandrika, the Guyana and West Indies Test opener is looking to make amends for his woeful series against Australia back in June and now has his sights set on wearing the maroon cap once more for the upcoming series against Sri Lanka.

Amanda Lam, one of the survivors of last Friday’s fatal Houston collision, says she was forced to seek medical attention at a private hospital after the public hospital that she was referred to could not treat her injuries.

A jury was yesterday finally selected for the long delayed Coroner’s Inquest into the deaths of Jermaine Canterbury, Mark Anthony Joseph, and Romario Gouveia, who were fatally shot by police almost two years ago.

Arnold Neville was on Thursday remanded to prison after being charged with forgery and conspiring to defraud a business of over $1M in tyres.

(Reuters) – Long-time U.S. sprint coach Bob Kersee wishes anti-doping protocols were changed to ensure athletes were equally tested, he told Reuters in a telephone interview yesterday.

Festus Hohenkirk, who admitted to being found with a “blunt,” told a city court yesterday that he was wrongly charged when he was arraigned for drug trafficking.

A great weekend of boxing is in store. This is according to Technical Director of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Terrence Poole referring to the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis National Novices Championships which will be staged from this evening at the East Ruimveldt Community Centre.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (Reuters) – Athletes must themselves decide the future they want for their sport following the latest doping crisis, former Olympic sprint champion Carl Lewis said yesterday.

A police patrol yesterday recovered 21 kilogrammes (equivalent to 46 pounds) of compressed marijuana at the Vriesland Foreshore, West Bank Demerara.

Dear Editor It is good news to learn that Guyana will receive royalties on each barrel of oil produced from the Stabroek block.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday its Independent Commission will urgently launch an investigation into widespread doping allegations against international athletics.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has welcomed the government’s announcement that it will likely revisit appointments to various state boards, following the criticisms about their ethnic and gender imbalance.

Hi Everyone, At this time of the year, all around the markets, you can see trays, boxes, and baskets brimming with red, shiny, beautiful tomatoes.

Dear Editor,   Please tell me that the page 19 story in your August 5 edition captioned ‘UG students get community service after multi-million dollar store hold up’ was a mistake, misprint, mis-something of some kind.

The Ministry of Social Protection has started consultations aimed at developing a national gender policy.

HARARE, (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Kane Williamson scored 90 to lay the foundations for a 38-run victory over Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club yesterday which gave the Kiwis the three-match one-day international series 2-1.

A Linden man, accused of assaulting the mother of his child, was on Thursday remanded to prison after he told a city court that she was responsible for his actions.

Dear Editor,   I’m a regular visitor to my homeland and this is my first since the change of government.

Omet Samuels, the miner who died after the pit he was working in collapsed on Wednesday, was buried for close to half-an-hour, his wife said.

The United States government is now moving forward with the process for the sentencing of Guyanese fraud convict Edul Ahmad by the Court of the Eastern District of New York.

ZURICH (Reuters) – The head of North American soccer’s governing body CONCACAF has been fired following the FBI investigation into corruption allegations at FIFA, a source and his lawyer said.

KABUL, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed dozens of cadets at a Kabul police academy and insurgents struck an area near a U.S.

Miss Jamzone Guyana 2015, 24-year-old model and university student Cardella Hamilton believes first impressions and confidence are factors are key to success in pageantry.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, , CMC – Following are the latest Caribbean Football Union rankings released by FIFA on Thursday: (FIFA rankings are in brackets)   1 Jamaica (55) 2 Trinidad & Tobago (56) 3 Haiti (84) 4 Antigua & Barbuda (105) 5 St Vincent & the Grenadines (115) 6 St Kitts & Nevis (119) 6 Cuba (119) 8 Dominican Republic (129) 9 St Lucia (131) 10 Bermuda (135) 11 Aruba (137) 12 Barbados (138) 13 Curacao (148) 14 Puerto Rico (150) 15 Guyana (152) 16 Grenada (160) 17 Suriname (165) 18 Dominica (173) 19 US Virgin Islands (176) 20 Montserrat (178) 21 Cayman Islands (189) 22 Turks & Caicos (193) 23 British Virgin Islands (194) 24 Anguilla (208) 24 The Bahamas (208)

Dear Editor,   The APNU+AFC coalition government, through the Minister of Finance, has commissioned a number of forensic audits of the accounting systems and operations of a number of ministries, government departments and state agencies.

Rentokil Initial on Thursday celebrated the 50th anniversary since its humble beginnings as a small business in Georgetown.

CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reuters) – A Colorado jury sentenced movie rampage gunman James Holmes to life without parole yesterday, rejecting the death penalty for the 27-year-old who entered a midnight screening of a Batman film wielding a semi-automatic rifle, shotgun and pistol and killed a dozen people.

Another Emancipation Day has come and gone. This year’s celebration marked 177 years since our enslaved forebears were set free.

A city worker removing a section of the steel fence of the IMEX International building at High and Leopold streets yesterday.

Boxing is a tough sport. It is a statement that is hard to argue with after watching what fighters endure during preparation for their next opponent.

Dear Editor,   The two recent photographs of PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad and President Granger are indeed of great importance to all Guyanese who believe in the concept ‘You are my brother’s keeper’; in the concept of racial and ethnic unity and in the concept of Caribbean unity.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, (Reuters) – After years of false starts and blown deadlines, Haitians are set to vote in the first legislative elections in more than three years tomorrow in a test of stability for the country, an impoverished Caribbean nation with a history of coups.

(Trinidad Express) Businesswoman Mary Ramlogan yesterday staged a protest outside the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) to highlight the unavailability of foreign currency, which is creating a negative impact on her business.

It was Miuccia Prada who said fashion is an instant language.

Few actual journalists would have deserved the sendoff given to Jon Stewart as he took leave of the fake news show he has made into a staple of late-night television over the last 16 years.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Donald Trump refused to rule out an independent White House bid and bristled at questions about his attitudes toward women, leaving his rivals struggling for attention on Thursday during a feisty first Republican presidential debate.

Colonel Enoch W Gaskin (right), formally handed command of the Second Infantry Battalion to Colonel Patrick West, on July 28th.

Distance athletes get ready, the annual Courts (Unicomer Guyana Inc.) 10km road race billed for September 20 was launched on Thursday at its Main Street head office.

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Politikles

(Trinidad Express) Express Investigative Reporter Anika Gumbs resigned yesterday stating that she was “mentally scarred” and “traumatised” by “an unfortunate experience” with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley.

Dear Editor,   On August 9th the Cuffy250 committee will be hosting its third Annual State of Black African Guyanese forum at Critchlow Labour College.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) says that a team of doctors from the Health Education and Relief Organization (HERO) recently visited Guyana to perform corrective surgeries on a number of children with lower limb deformities at the hospital.