Daily Archive: Tuesday, April 26, 2016

A businessman of Levans Street, Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo was shot this evening in front of his premises and is being treated at the hospital.

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Courts on both U.S. coasts dealt setbacks to Bill Cosby’s legal team today, as the comedian kept trying to fight off lawsuits over allegations that he has sexually abused women for decades.

First Lady Sandra Granger yesterday joined Kella and Pamela Ramsaroop and well-wishers of the Dharm Shala Home of Benevolence for All Races to mark its 95th anniversary.

The new members of the Gaming Authority of Guyana convened their first official meeting today.

Bibi Safoora Salim, the woman who allegedly made death threats against President David Granger on Facebook, was today read two charges of attempting to excite hostility and ill will.

Guyanese businessman Pramchand Punwasi who is resident in Canada, and is the owner of Canadian Surplus (Guyana) today presented twenty (20) beds, complete with mattresses, to the Guyana Police Force, to assist with the comfortable accommodation of ranks at stations.

GTT today announced the line-up of artistes for its Independence Night Mega Concert.

During Sunday, the police say that miner Neil Jordan, 42 years, of Bartica, Essequibo, was at a mining camp at Farback Backdam, Mazaruni, when he was held up by two men armed with a firearm and a cutlass.

(Trinidad Guardian) One man was killed and another critically injured in a shooting incident in San Fernando yesterday.

The government yesterday confirmed weekly meetings between Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and state media heads but said no complaint of intimidation or interference has been made by the board or management of any state media to his office.

A Friendship man, who had pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine to the US in 2014, was shot dead with his own illegal weapon on Sunday night after he and an accomplice broke into the home of a Yarrowkabra, Linden-Soesdyke Highway shopkeeper and attempted to rob him.

The taxi driver, whose car was used to transport murdered Sophia woman, Simone Hackett, was yesterday charged with her murder and remanded to prison.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Cricket’s governing body, the International Cricket Council, has blasted the behaviour of some members the West Indies team following the final of the Twenty20 World Cup in India earlier this month In an unusual step yesterday, the ICC labelled the players’ behaviour as “inappropriate and disrespectful”, and argued that it “brought the event into disrepute.”

One man is dead and three others critically injured while a fifth escaped with minor injuries when the vehicle they were in turned turtle at Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo around 2 am yesterday.

A 50-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with raping a 12-year-old girl.

All-rounder Ronaldo Alimohamed starred with bat and ball as Demerara crushed Essequibo by 124 runs in their opening round match of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Hand-In-Hand Inter-County one-day tournament played yesterday at the Wales Community Centre Ground.

Parents and residents yesterday forced the closure of the Mocha Arcadia Nursery School, following a protest over the appalling conditions their children are enduring and the continuing neglect by authorities.

“There is still much work to do.” Those were the sentiments acknowledged by coach of the national 15s rugby team, Laurie Adonis moments after his charges whipped Barbados 48-17 in the 2016 Rugby America’s North (RAN) opening fixture on Saturday at the National Park.

Director of Prisons Carl Graham yesterday said fire prevention inspections are done regularly at the Camp Street jail but he was unable to confirm if any were done for the year.

Pele climbed to the fourth spot in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League outflanking the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) 3-1 Sunday at the Camp Ayanganna ground.

The retrial of the two men charged with the 2007 murder of nine-year-old Sade Stoby began yesterday before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow with an emotional testimony from the dead child’s mother Sharon Berry.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Until this season Manchester City’s progression in the Champions League could be measured in baby steps but today they can make a huge leap forward when they host Real Madrid in their first European semi-final for 45 years.

Dear Editor, This is what I hope to be my sole intervention on the recent controversy surrounding the management of the state media. 

LONDON, CMC – Fiery fast bowler Tino Best has joined Hampshire on a short-term deal, replacing fellow former Barbados and West Indies speedster, Fidel Edwards, who has been ruled out by injury.

Thieves broke into the  Kinderen Nursery School, for the third time in one year, and carted off a music system valued $87,000 even while a security guard was on duty.

More than eight years after Ruby businessman Habiboodean from injuries he sustained when he was severely beaten at his home and two persons including his daughter were charged with the crime and subsequently freed, another individual yesterday confessed to the police that he was the hit-man.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me to respond to Mr. Harry Gill’s letter that was published in your newspaper on Sunday 24th April, 2016 `Carol Joseph’s disgraceful behaviour hindering progress on the Region Five council’.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Fourteen-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has begun legal proceedings against former French cabinet minister Roselyne Bachelot after she alleged that the Spaniard had failed a drug test.

(The Sports Xchange) – Kyrie Irving is off to a great start in his effort to make up for lost time in the playoffs.

A man who claimed that he was just a ‘Good Samaritan’ was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he had just over three pounds of cannabis in his possession.

Dear Editor, I refer to a letter by Mr. Milton Bruce, `Burnham’s revolutionary ideas had the country buzzing’, SN, April 18, 2016.  

Dear Editor, In a letter published in the Stabroek News, the Vice Chair of the National Toshaos’ Council (NTC), Mr Lenox Shuman, lamented that not enough funding is provided by the Government for the NTC to execute its mandate and also that there is some level of political interference with the workings of the body.

The body of a 52-year-old man was discovered at the Kitty seawall on Sunday afternoon in the vicinity of Celina’s Resort and an autopsy performed yesterday revealed that he died as a result of drowning.

Dear Editor, Police need to clamp down on the trend of illegal activities being committed by persons who traverse the city and its outskirts on motorcycles and bicycles as a chosen means of escape.

HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – President Barack Obama announced yesterday the biggest expansion of US ground troops in Syria since its civil war began, but the move was unlikely to mollify Arab allies angry over Washington’s cautious approach to the conflict.

(The Sports Xchange) – Evan Turner called Boston Celtics teammate Marcus Smart the best player on the court on Sunday at TD Garden.

A Kitty resident was shot to his right hand yesterday morning in what is suspected to be an attempted execution.

DHAKA (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants hacked to death a leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the US embassy and a friend in an apartment in Bangladesh’s capital yesterday, police said.

Following weeks of preparation, the selection committee of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) has selected a 30-member team to represent the Golden Arrowhead at the Caribbean’s first schoolboys and juniors tournament scheduled to be held here this weekend.

A miner was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge that he had just over three pounds of cannabis in his possession.

Dear Editor, I read with great sadness of the passing of Ras Michael.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday shot down one of the opposition’s main tactics to oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro with a ruling that any constitutional amendment to reduce the presidential term could not be retroactive.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Desperately seeking an antidote to a rapidly aging population, Japanese policymakers are exploring ways to bring in more foreign workers without calling it an “immigration policy”.

MOHALI, India, CMC – Kieron Pollard’s run of poor form continued but Mumbai Indians still produced a strong all-rounder performance to trounce Kings XI Punjab by 25 runs in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Below are listed some of the decisions that I would make as President of Guyana: 1)            Free up the State Media by privatising Guyana Chronicle and NCN.

One of the two prisoners who were hospitalised after an altercation at the Camp Street jail on Sunday evening remains admitted at the Georgetown Public Hospital in stable condition.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest opposition party is divided over how strongly to back a new interim government if it succeeds in having President Dilma Rousseff stripped of office, as it eyes a run at the presidency in 2018, senior members said yesterday.

Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) dismantled arch-rivals Hikers 10-0 when the inaugural Woodpecker Women’s Hockey League continued Sunday.

Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) will be officially requesting a meeting with Minister of State Joseph Harmon today, according to its President Trevor Thomas.

Dear Editor, How have we sunken so far as a nation?

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos named a new cabinet yesterday to strengthen his government as peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels enter their final phase and as the economy struggles with slumping oil revenue and increasing inflation.

Probably the most quizzical piece of reportage on last Friday’s event to mark the first public consultation for the Commission of Inquiry into the education system in Guyana had to do with the disclosure regarding the paucity of attendance at the event.

LIMA (Reuters) – A palm oil industry body yesterday ordered a member company with a 5,000 hectare (12,355 acre) concession in Peru to stop developing new plantations until it can prove it has not cleared any primary forest.

Here’s what’s most remarkable about Peru’s April 10 first-round election, which will result in a June 5 runoff vote between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski: Nearly 80 per cent of the people voted against a Venezuelan-like leftist-populist model.