Articles published on Tuesday, May 24, 2016
The apparent massive Afro-Guyanese support for and participation in and the apparent Indo-Guyanese absence from activities associated with the golden jubilee celebrations have led some to claim that the event will be more of an African fest than a national celebration than those who gathered to hoist the Golden Arrowhead on 26 May 1966 would have expected.
MIAMI, CMC-Trinidad and Tobago’s Jack Warner, the former Vice President of football’s world governing body (FIFA), is being sued for more than US50 million dollars by the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association (CONCACAF).
MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – West Indies batting star Chris Gayle will not be returning to Melbourne Renegades for this year’s Big Bash League.
NORRISTOWN, Pa., Reuters) – A Pennsylvania judge ordered Bill Cosby to stand trial for sexual assault, ruling today that there was enough evidence for the entertainer to be criminally tried on charges that he attacked a woman in 2004 after giving her drugs.
About 2000h. last night, the police say that Cleveland Pyle, 22 years, and Damion Pearce, 24 years, security guards attached to a private security service, were making a night deposit at a Bank at Le Ressouvenir, ECD, when they were attacked by a man armed with a gun.
Rickford Bourne, 71 years, of “B” Field, Sophia, who was allegedly struck to his head by his son during an argument on May 19, 2016, succumbed to his injuries yesterday, the police said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Oil-rich Venezuela, which is faced with a severe food crisis, will soon bring relief to its citizens by purchasing US$50 million in goods from T&T.
Minister of Finance Winston Jordan and Bank of Guyana Governor Dr Gobind Ganga yesterday insisted that there is no sluggishness in the economy, while saying that the numbers show the economy is doing well and is projected to do even better by year end.
A reduction in the current 16% Value-Added Tax (VAT) rate is not possible before the next budget, according to Finance Minister Winston Jordan, who says that although the Tax Reform Committee (TRC) has made such a recommendation, government has sought guidance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ensure that the right decision is made.
Kempton Glenn and Robin Holder, the two men who police say were caught during an escape bid after robbing an Atlantic Ville resident whom they had trailed home from a bank, were yesterday charged and remanded to prison.
The police were yesterday granted an additional 72 hours to keep the husband of Babita Sarjou and his alleged accomplice in custody and her relatives have positively identified her belongings.
Treatment of over five persons with Guillian Barre Syndrome (GBS), the rare neurological disorder said to be associated with the mosquito-borne Zika virus in some countries, is taxing the resources at George-town Public Hospital Cor-poration (GPHC), according to Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton.
The Mayor and City Council said yesterday that it was working towards seeing Edward B Beharry and Company Limited receive the necessary approvals to launch its Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) franchise.
The opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday commended the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Guyana Police Force for its recent successes in solving crimes and suggested that Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum be promoted.
The Government of Guyana is looking to secure funding from the Islamic Development Bank in a number of areas and is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a country mission team, Minister of Finance Minister Winston Jordan said yesterday.
Harvard-bound Guyanese scholar Kelly Hyles has embarked on a mission to spread motivation to Guyanese students as they carve their own paths to success.
With the help of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a labour force survey that determine the official unemployment rate will begin in January 2017, Chief Statistician Lennox Benjamin says.
DC Jammers maintained their unbeaten record in their four-match Goodwill Series, downing Road to Mecca Champions Colts 93-78 Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Slingerz FC completed the first ever unbeaten league campaign in the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Stag Beer Elite League, downing Monedderlust FC 5-0 on Sunday at the Leonora Sports Facility.
The rehabilitation of Carifesta Avenue that will see it upgraded to facilitate more traffic is expected to be finished by the end of July.
Green Machine’ coach Laurie Adonis insists he is not getting carried away just yet despite his team’s perfect start to the Rugby America’s North (RAN) 15s campaign.
A New York-based child care worker was yesterday fined $140,000 after she admitted to attempting to smuggle birds out of the country.
King’s Knight trampled its opposition and galloped away with the spoils of the feature C and Lower, seven-furlong event of the Golden Jubilee Independence meet on Sunday.
Attorney Gaumattie Singh has been charged with dangerous driving after she allegedly caused a three-vehicle collision.
A mother of eight has been searching desperately for her missing child, who was last seen on Monday last.
Chris Gayle has responded to the criticism he received from fellow cricketers following his sexist comments during a live interview in last season’s Big Bash League with Andrew Flintoff, Chris Rogers and Ian Chappell all coming under fire in an extract from his new autobiography.
The reclusive pensioner whose bloated body was discovered at his East Canje Village home, died as a result of a heart attack.
BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – Australia captain Steve Smith has warned both West Indies and South Africa that fit-again left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc could prove a handful during next month’s Tri-Nations Series in the Caribbean.
Oudit Chinapen, who allegedly caused the accident that resulted in the driver for the Speaker of the National Assembly losing his left arm, yesterday faced two charges and was released on $20,000 bail after pleading not guilty.
Dear Editor, What is happening to Cheddi Jagan today has happened to many great men in history.
(Reuters) – Draymond Green helped motivate Golden State to a record-breaking 73-game winning season but the struggling Warriors will be hoping their emotional forward can avoid suspension after he picked up a flagrant foul on Sunday.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – Left-handed opener Suresh Raina has been overlooked for India’s four-Test tour of the Caribbean starting in July.
Taxi driver Seon Greene, who is on trial for causing the death of cyclist Mohammed Khan by dangerous driving, told a court yesterday that it was the deceased who hit his vehicle and not the other way around.
Dear Editor, There is an endless stream of ‘emergency’ situations in the health sector in Region 6 which makes possible the overriding of the tendering process.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia captain Steven Smith has no qualms about playing another day-night test at Adelaide Oval but is wary of how the pink ball will perform in the humid conditions expected at Brisbane later this year.
The defective koker that had resulted in the flooding of the Little Diamond community is now working and the new door and upgrades to the sluice are expected to be installed soon.
Defence attorney Adrian Thompson yesterday asked Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul to find Premnauth Samaroo, Anthony David and Nicholas Narine innocent in the robbery of Justice Nicola Pierre and her family, while arguing that they had not been properly identified.
(Reuters) – England assistant coach Paul Farbrace has lauded the efforts of Jonny Bairstow after the wicketkeeper scored an excellent 140 in England’s innings and 88 runs victory over Sri Lanka in the first test in Leeds on Saturday.
Dear Editor, We, the nurses and members of Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), disassociate ourselves from the article by Mr Sase Singh in the Kaieteur News of May 11, 2016.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Bombs killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200 in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast yesterday in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, monitors and state media said.
Dear Editor, In a few days’ time Guyana will be celebrating its Golden Jubilee ‒ fifty years as an independent nation.
A former General Manager of El Dorado Trading and another man who were among four persons charged with committing a brazen $93 million gold heist in 2013, earlier this month decided to change their pleas to guilty and were sentenced to jail time by Magistrate Alex Moore.
(Reuters) – Chris Woakes has replaced injured all-rounder Ben Stokes in the England squad for the second test against Sri Lanka, the English Cricket Board said yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Defending champion Stan Wawrinka breathed a huge sigh of relief and Andy Murray faced a sleepless night after both got bogged down by belligerent Czechs at a sodden French Open yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Despite a tense economic and social crisis enveloping his nation, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday came to an agreement with Prime Minister Andrew Holness to boost ties through the PetroCaribe oil-purchasing arrangement under which Jamaica and other Caribbean nations have benefited considerably over the past 10 years.
Dear Editor, In a recent article ‘Double standards hurt West Indies chance to rebuild’ written by Colin Benjamin and published in ESPN Sports Media Ltd, the writer posed the following question: “Why is the WICB, one of the weakest boards in the world financially, trying to deny its best players from earning money from one of the few viable sources in the convoluted global cricket climate, which it and its fellow global administrations haven`t managed to stabilize?”
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s interim government was rocked on Monday by the loss of one of its key figures, Planning Minister Romero Juca, who stepped aside amid accusations he had conspired to obstruct the country’s biggest-ever corruption investigation.
A man charged with stealing a bicycle indicated to the court on Friday that he would need to see a receipt before he could repay the complainant for it.
(Reuters) – The Venezuelan bottler of Coca-Cola has halted production of sugar-sweetened beverage due to a lack of sugar, a Coca-Cola Co spokeswoman said yesterday.
MANILA (Reuters) – More than three months have passed since $81 million was stolen in a brazen cyber-heist from Bangladesh’s central bank and sent to Manila – yet authorities in the Philippines appear no closer to nabbing those who laundered most of the money through a bank and casinos here.
Dear Editor, My attention was drawn to a large advertisement board which was recently erected in the city by a prominent local company.
Politikles
Judging from what Brazil Foreign Minister Jose Serra suggested in an interview, Latin America’s biggest country will make a major change in its foreign policy: It will no longer be an unconditional supporter and ideological ally of Cuba, Venezuela, and other authoritarian regimes.
A miner was remanded to prison after he was charged in a city court with unlawful wounding.
(IPL) Four teams are left standing in the VIVO IPL 2016.
In the fullness of time one expects that the recently completed Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service of Guyana will become the subject of vigorous public discourse and that such discourse will take account of, among other things, which of its recommendations are accepted by the President and the manner and speed with which those accepted recommendations are implemented.
