Daily Archive: Wednesday, October 5, 2016

President David Granger, this evening, attended the launch of an autobiography of 91-year old Carmen Jarvis entitled “From Seedtime to Harvest”.

The Terms of Reference (TOR) for the investigations into the allegations of corruption and misconduct made by Kenwin Charles against members of the Guyana National Broadcasting Association (GNBA) Board was today handed over to Major General Ret’d Joe Singh by Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, at his office, at the Ministry of the Presidency.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies were in full blown crisis today after Babar Azam slammed a record third successive One-Day International hundred to condemn them to 136-run defeat, as Pakistan pulled off an emphatic 3-0 series whitewash and sent the Caribbean side tumbling to number nine in the international rankings.

Members of the Cabinet met yesterday deliberated as a matter of “extreme urgency and grave national importance”, the unsatisfactory results in mathematics nationwide, at the 2016 Grade Six Examination.

LES CAYES, Haiti/GUANTANAMO, Cuba,  (Reuters) – H urricane Matthew twisted toward the Bahamas and Florida’s east coast on Wednesday after killing at least 26 people and damaging a majority of homes in Haiti’s south, prompting the hard-hit country to postpone a long-awaited presidential election.

Retired CANU prosecutor Oswald Massiah was early this morning found dead in his car which was parked at the Parika Stelling, Divisional Commander Leslie James has confirmed.

Farmville, Va.,(Reuters) – U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “small and bullying leader” on Tuesday and condemned his actions in Syria, taking a harder line than Donald Trump at a contentious debate with Democratic rival Tim Kaine.

Board Chair of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Board of Directors Nigel Hinds is expected to resign from his position following ongoing issues with the corporation’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Richard Van West Charles, who, according to sources, continues to act “as a law onto himself,” which results in senior staff members being barred from functioning in their positions effectively.

A Tuschen Housing Scheme, East Bank Essequibo taxi driver died last evening after he was shot in the chest during a robbery.

A fisherman from East Canje has been missing since Friday and relatives suspect that he may be dead since someone from the boat which he was working on informed them that he had fallen overboard.

A 49-year-old joiner is currently in police custody and is expected to be charged soon with the rape of an eight-year-old girl.

Guyana yesterday blasted Venezuela for the “vituperative” statement it issued on the 117th anniversary of the 1899 Arbitral Award, which was observed on Monday.

The body of an elderly woman was on Monday morning discovered in her Cornelia Ida Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home with several stab wounds and it is believed that she was sexually assaulted prior to her death.

Three years after prominent television broadcaster Chandra Narine Sharma was committed to stand trial in the High Court on charges of having carnal knowledge of a girl and indecent assault, he was yesterday freed after the complainants expressed a lack of interest in pursuing the case further.

In an historic decision, the Bid Protest Committee (BPC) has upheld the Communities Ministry’s award of a $221 million one-year contract to Puran Brothers Disposal Inc for the operation and maintenance of the Haags Bosch Landfill, after finding that the evaluation criteria were followed and that the company had the lowest bid.

Two police officers, accused of accepting a bribe to forgo an assault case, were yesterday each released on bail by a city magistrate after denying the crime.

Despite the confirmed non-participation of French Guyana, the 2016 edition of the Inter-Guiana Games was officially launched yesterday by the National Sports Commission (NSC) at the entity’s Homestretch Avenue Headquarters.

One week after he found guilty and sentenced in absentia, the police yesterday issued a wanted bulletin for fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine.

Representatives from the National Sports Commission, the major sponsors, the Guyana Floodlights Cricket Association (GFSCA) and softball clubs were present yesterday morning at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) ground as the GFSCA unveiled its plans for the staging of the sixth annual Guyana Softball Cup competition.

Jamaal December, the police trainee who was charged last month with stealing from a fellow recruit, was on Monday sentenced to two years on probation as well as counselling for recommendation to the USAID’s Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) programme.

Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Vice President Rawlston Adams said yesterday that the commencement of the Goal Project has been held up by an unsigned contract between the supervising consultant and the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).

Stores and Trisco scored contrasting victories when the Banks DIH Limited (Ltd) Inter-Department five-a-side football tournament continued Monday at the Thirst Park ground with preliminary matches.

Jewel Coats, the woman who admitted to dumping her baby on a city street because she did not want the child anymore, was yesterday fined $100,000 after she was found guilty of child endangerment.

A 65-year-old woman is now dead after she was hit down by a car driven by an Assistant Superintendent of Police at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD).

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC- Vishaul Singh was dismissed four runs shy of a century, after leading two solid partnerships to steady West Indies A, who suffered two batting melt downs against Sri Lanka A on the opening day of their first unofficial Test here yesterday.

The opposition PPP/C yesterday staged protests over the government’s delay in establishing the Local Government Commission, for which the administration is still to identify its nominees.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC- A 49 run stand for the fifth wicket between wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich and Roston Chase averted a second innings batting collapse for West Indies against Emirates Cricket Board Xl as their two day warm-up match petered out into a draw here yesterday.

(Reuters) – Maria Sharapova is counting the days until she can return to action having been cleared to play again next April after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced the former world number one’s two-year drugs ban by nine months yesterday.

Days after meeting GuySuCo on the future of the sugar industry, the three workers’ unions yesterday said they were disappointed at the engagement in light of the “excessively dark and pessimistic” picture that was painted by the corporation’s management.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC-Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has heaped praise on Damion Daniel for becoming the new heavyweight body building champion in the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) region.

As investigators continue to probe the more than one week old investigation into the fatal shooting outside the Rio Inn Nightclub, former murder accused Lloyd Roberts remains in custody and the High Court yesterday granted the police an extension to keep him for three more days.

Today is World Teachers’ Day, which is being observed under the theme of “Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status,” but the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) General Secretary Coretta McDonald is questioning whether local educators are indeed valued and if there is a real commitment to improving their livelihoods.

(Reuters) – The late Arnold Palmer was given a moving, highly emotional and often humorous tribute by leading figures from the golf world yesterday during a lengthy memorial service in his former hometown of Latrobe in Pennsylvania.

Some city council workers were yesterday finally paid wages owed to them since last month after a second day of protest action.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- The third-round match between Jamaica and Suriname in the Men’s Caribbean Cup has been postponed due to safety concerns regarding Hurricane Matthew, officials have announced.

Dear Editor, One of the fastest ways to reach certain parts of Guyana is by boat.

Dear Editor, I say that vision is a virtue, the more of it the better. 

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC- Manager of the West Indies team on tour of the United Arab Emirates, Joel Garner, has strongly rejected as “misleading” claims of disorganization in the regional side from veteran all-rounder Dwayne Bravo.

Bids were opened yesterday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for rehabilitation of Hope Bridge, East Coast Demerara.

Dear Editor, We have an active Water Users’ Association (WUA) within the Hague/ Blankenburg Neighbourhood Democratic Council ‒ a rice cultivation area.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The reputation of the Indian cricket board (BCCI) has been ruined by the freezing of its bank accounts, its president Anurag Thakur said yesterday, after a Supreme Court-appointed panel blocked it from making two payments to its state units.

MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte yesterday told US President Barack Obama to “go to hell” and said the United States had refused to sell some weapons to his country but he did not care because Russia and China were willing suppliers.

Dear Editor, A Commission of Inquiry into the presence of an illegal aircraft found some weeks ago at an illegal airstrip near Yupukari Village, Central Rupununi, opened yesterday at the Indigenous Conference Hall, Amerindian Hostel, Lethem.

A jury was yesterday empaneled for the trial of Lloyd Britton in the 2013 murder of Elvis Fernandes, who was shot dead on Mandela Avenue during an argument between two motorists.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC- West Indies will attempt to avoid a second successive whitewash when they face Pakistan in the third and final match of their One-Day International series here today.

Dear Editor, The presence of the Vice Chairperson for Region 2 and the Chairman of the Riverstown/Annandale Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) was not at all helpful in preventing the escalating lawlessness that is a common occurrence every Sunday morning at the Suddie Market Square. 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is trying to hasten a deal with the United States to buy Predator drone aircraft for military surveillance, one of several defence and nuclear projects the two sides are pursuing in the final months of the Obama administration.

Candacie Marshall, Melissa Naughton and Oladara Christian, who were found guilty in August of fraudulently converting in excess of $48 million from Telecom Solutions Guyana Inc, were yesterday each sentenced to four years in jail.

ABUJA (Reuters) – Two of Nigeria’s 10 presidential jets have been put up for sale as part of a drive to cut costs, a spokesman for President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday.

The trial of Alvin Dunga, the man accused of killing another by shooting him with a bow and arrow back in 2005 during an argument over stolen gold pieces, began yesterday before Justice Roxane George.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has been drinking and using cocaine to help him deal with depression, he told Rolling Stone magazine in an interview released yesterday.

Dear Editor, Permit me to thank Mike Persaud for his attention, as he seems to have gone to great lengths to formulate a rather curious response to a letter I previously penned, and to questions I didn’t even ask (‘Correia does not understand the context in which the US intervened in Guyana’ SN, October 3).

LES CAYES, Haiti/ GUANTANAMO, Cuba (Reuters) – The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade battered Haiti’s southwest coast with 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and surging seas that flooded coastal towns yesterday, tearing at trees and rooftops before moving on to Cuba.

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe is losing at least $1 billion annually to corruption, with police and local government officials among the worst offenders, Transparency International said in a report yesterday.

A second person was placed under arrest in connection with the recent murder of the Gangaram cattle farmer and this was confirmed by Commander of ‘B’ Division, Kevin Adonis.

(Reuters) – World number two Andy Murray overwhelmed Italy’s Andreas Seppi 6-2 7-5 and second seed Rafael Nadal crushed veteran Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-1 6-1 to reach the China Open second round yesterday.

BERLIN (Reuters) – WikiLeaks  founder Julian Assange said yesterday the group would publish about one million documents related to the US election and three governments in coming weeks, but denied the release was aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton.

What, to many governments in the hemisphere, and particularly the government of the United States of America as President Obama prepares to leave office, must surely be a severe disappointment, has been the referendum last week in Colombia which rejected the agreement negotiated by the government of President Juan Manuel Santos with the guerrilla grouping referring to itself as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

A no-case submission was made on behalf of attempted murder accused Stafrei Alexander.

(Reuters) – India opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the third test against New Zealand with a broken hand and replaced in the squad by the uncapped Karun Nair.

HAVANA/BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and Marxist guerrillas went back to the drawing board in Havana yesterday after a peace deal they painstakingly negotiated over four years was rejected in a shock referendum result.

Dear Editor, They are assigned the responsibility to mould the nation and keep doing a fantastic job despite the challenges.

Since some 95% of the criminal cases in the United States of America are concluded by plea bargaining, as I was considering witness protection programmes in last week’s column, a thought struck me.