Daily Archive: Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The Moco Moco hydro power facility is expected to come on stream shortly as the Government has been successful in securing $200M in international financing, Minister of Social Cohesion Amna Ally, told over 100 residents at the Moco Moco Primary School over the weekend.

A Guyanese man Ravindranauth `Ravi’ Roopnarine was on Thursday jailed in a Florida, USA court for just for 21 years following conviction in a US$50m mortgage fraud scam.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s wife Melania, in her first major political speech on Monday, portrayed her husband as a talented, compassionate and unrelenting leader who would unify rather than divide the country if elected to the White House.

After more than six hours of debate that ended late last night, the long-awaited telecommunications reform legislation was passed in the National Assembly and although opposition speakers expressed support for it, they also tried without success to have it sent to a special select committee to correct what they said was its deficiencies.

Although the country’s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and Amerindian populations, according to the last census.

After a police background check barred the top candidate, Scotia Bank Manager Matthew Edward Hugh Langevine, the second in line, was given the nod by the Parliamentary Committee of Appoint-ments to be the next Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

Businesses operating in the city owe the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) over $16.2 billion in outstanding rates and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has called upon them to honour their civic obligation.

Former Anglican Bishop of Guyana Randolph Oswald George passed away yesterday at his home in Republic Park.

A Guyanese woman yesterday became St Lucia’s latest road fatality after the car she was driving plunged into the harbour in the wee hours of the morning.

A Guyanese woman was killed and her nine-year-old daughter injured in Queens, New York on Sunday when a drunken driver in a BMW plowed through a stop sign at more than 50 mph, hitting their car in the process.

Chartered accountant Godfrey Statia is set to take up the position of Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), a reliable source has confirmed.

No case has been made out against Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Minister of Natural Re-sources Raphael Trotman for a breach of privilege, House Speaker Barton Scotland ruled yesterday.

Police on the Essequibo Coast are investigating the death of a three-month-old child of Jacklow, Pomeroon River, who was found dead in his bed hours after he was fed by his mother.

The body of a handyman was picked up late on Sunday night along the Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD) Public Road and it is believed that he was beaten to death.

A North Ruimveldt minibus driver was yesterday found guilty of causing the death of septuagenarian William Trim, who died following a vehicular collision along Aubrey Barker Road.

A police officer was yesterday brought before a city court and charged with robbing a man of cash and other items.

A decision on whether the Hadfield Street Drop-In Centre, which was destroyed by fire almost two weeks ago, will be rebuilt for use again will be made on completion of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) currently under way.

A taxi driver got sentenced yesterday to five years in jail and fined over $38 million after he was found guilty of trafficking cannabis amounting to 76.6 kilos (equivalent to 168.87 pounds).

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Anand Narine and Darrol Compton, the two men accused of killing Babita Sarjou six years ago, began yesterday with the testimony of a policeman.

Tucville clinched the Ministry of Health/Petra Organization Soft Shoe football championships Sunday edging North East La Penitence 2-1 on penalty kicks at the Ministry of Education Ground.

National volleyball coach Ian Wills yesterday confirmed that he had severed ties both coaching-wise and administratively with the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF).

Six Colombian nationals, said to be among those taken into custody after last week’s raid on the Rio Inn nightclub, were yesterday charged with fraud and with overstaying their time in Guyana.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is currently engaging its lawyers to find the best possible solution to moving forward with the implementation of container fees, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green said yesterday.

Larissa Wiltshire last night shocked teammate and top seed Taylor Fernandes to snatch gold in the girls U19 singles as the curtain came down on the Maples Caribbean Area Squash Association junior championships in the Cayman Islands.

West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) President’s XI assistant coach Rayon Griffith has commended the hunger and attitude shown by his young side during the two recent practice games against India ahead of the upcoming Test series beginning Thursday.

A father of three was yesterday charged with fraudulently converting $1.5 million in raw gold.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Mohammad Amir returned to the hallowed ground of Lord’s he defiled six years ago to earn Pakistan one of their most memorable test triumphs over England on Sunday.

The prosecution was yesterday forced to close its case in the trial of Keith Ferrier, one of the accused in the 2009 arson of the Ministry of Health building at Brickdam, due to the non-appearance of some 19 witnesses.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Darren Bravo will enter this week’s opening Test against India as the highest ranked West Indies batsman in the game’s longer format.

Thirty-seven-year-old Hansel Andre Lewis, who slashed the throat of Chris Burrowes during the early hours of New Year’s Day 2013, was on Friday sentenced to 13 years in prison by Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Berbice Assizes on the indictment of attempted murder.

Omar Bacchus, who had been on remand for eight years, was last week sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by Justice Brassington Reynolds over the beating to death of Chandradat Hemraj at Bloomfield Village, Berbice in 2008.

BERN, (Reuters) – World champion Peter Sagan claimed his third 2016 Tour de France stage victory when he pipped Alexander Kristoff on the line at the end of the 16th stage, a 209-km ride from Moirans-en-Montagne yesterday.

Ann’s Grove and Eagles FC became the latest teams to clinch their berths to the next round in the Mayor’s Cup Football Championship, edging Cougars and Uitvlugt respectively on Sunday at the Victoria Community ground.

Justice Brassington Reynolds last week imposed an 11-year sentence on Kevin Joshua who threw a corrosive liquid on Harlan Rose causing permanent disfigurement to the back of his head and along his left side.

Cat Massiah trampled the opposition and galloped away with the spoils in Sunday’s feature G and Lower event of the Guyana Association of Women Police (GAWP)  horse race meet.

A man was last week sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in absentia on a charge of larceny from the person.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court has barred ministers and bureaucrats from holding posts in the country’s cricket board (BCCI) as part of administrative reforms in the world’s richest national cricket body.

Dear Editor, The front page of the Sunday Stabroek for July 17 contained a headline that included the names of two garbage collection services that caught my attention.

Three Dominican Republic nationals were last week each ordered to pay a fine of $50,000 and face immediate deportation out of Guyana for overstaying their permitted time in the country.

Dear Editor, I totally agree with Neaz Subhan that there is need for a Cricket Academy in Guyana, and with the follow-up by John Mair, who lived for a number of years in Georgetown.

LONDON, CMC – Chesney Hughes closed in on the 700-run mark but Derbyshire were facing a battle to avoid defeat after collapsing on the second day of their County Championship game against Glamorgan here yesterday.

The Chairman and members of the newly elected Rice Assessment Committee Board over the last week resolved land issues at scheduled hearings at the Mahaicony and Leguan Magistrate’s courts respectively.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey purged its police yesterday after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of a failed military coup, and said it could reconsider its friendship with the United States unless Washington hands over a cleric Ankara blames for the putsch.

Dear Editor, Referring to it as a “shared responsibility”, the expert panel set up by the Premier of Ontario, Canada, recently reported on how to prepare workers for the jobs of today and tomorrow, especially the critical ‘knowledge- and technology-based’ jobs.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Batsman Ajinkya Rahane believes run-scoring will be difficult on Caribbean pitches and has urged his teammates to be disciplined and patient in the four-Test series against West Indies which bowls off here Thursday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Stepped-up security screenings produced long lines for travelers at Brazil’s main airports yesterday in the aftermath of the truck attack in Nice, France and weeks ahead of the Olympic games in the South American nation.

CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The Republican National Convention briefly erupted in chaos yesterday when opponents of presumptive US presidential nominee Donald Trump stormed out of the room and others chanted in a failed attempt to force a vote opposing his candidacy.

A city magistrate last week sentenced a 42-year-old man to 12 months in prison after he admitted to a breaking and entering charge.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC– A sensational half century from promising Nicholas Pooran gave Barbados Tridents a kick-start and set the  stage for their 25 run win over St.

Dear Editor, Kaieteur News of July 17, reported that the stepfather of three underage sisters was detained for allegedly sexually assaulting them and then ejecting them from the home.

With the deadline approaching for the vendors plying their trade at Lombard and Hadfield streets, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is still working to find a permanent location for them.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Thousands of elderly people in Latin America, Spain, and elsewhere who are dependent on a Venezuelan state pension have been forced to find other ways to survive after payments stopped last year, some of those affected told Reuters.

BEIJING (Reuters) – A collection of documents from Zhao Ziyang, who was China’s reformist Communist Party chief until he was toppled in 1989 for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, has been smuggled out of the country and will be published in Hong Kong this month, according to a publishing house that is turning them into a book.

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Team USA will be without many star players in Rio due mainly to concerns over Zika and injuries, but such is the depth of the country’s basketball talent that they are expected to cruise to a third consecutive gold medal.

Politikles

Two Corentyne fishermen were yesterday placed on $50,000 bail each, when they appeared at the Springlands Magistrate Court to answer to a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto apologized yesterday for a damaging conflict-of-interest row in 2014 surrounding his wife’s purchase of a luxury home from a government contractor.

Dear Editor, There is no magic formula on how to generate growth and development.

Early on Wednesday morning a West Demerara murder suspect who was being held at the La Grange Police Station escaped custody reportedly through a hole in the wall of the cell where he was being held.

CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The normally straight-laced Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tried humour to win over Republicans at their national convention yesterday, handing out packets of a satirical medicine called “Islamophobin,” a treatment for Islamophobia.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Tridents were yesterday dealt a major blow in their Caribbean Premier League (CPL) campaign when AB de Villiers was forced out of the tournament because of Cricket South Africa commitments.

LONDON — After several decades of covering Latin American affairs, I’m pretty used to seeing developing countries that are deeply divided over where they should fit in the global scene.