Articles published on Thursday, November 3, 2016
CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition exhorted President Nicolas Maduro today to set an election and start releasing jailed activists within days, while students opposed to Vatican-led talks protested in the streets.
Kitty and Queenstown in Georgetown are among areas scheduled for a 10-hour power cut on Sunday, November 6th to facilitate a comprehensive maintenance exercise by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL).
LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s High Court ruled today that the British government requires parliamentary approval to trigger the process of exiting the European Union, complicating Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans.
(Reuters) – Kraigg Brathwaite and Shane Dowrich struck unbeaten half-centuries to guide West Indies to a first test victory in 14 matches as the Caribbean side beat Pakistan by five wickets on the final morning of the third test in Sharjah today.
A mentally-challenged man is currently in custody, following the discovery of the decapitated body of his neighbour in her Belvedere Village home.
A bandit was early yesterday morning shot dead by a licenced firearm holder after he and an accomplice attempted to break into a Diamond, East Bank Demerara home.
Former Director of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Carvil Duncan, was yesterday found not guilty of stealing almost a million dollars from the company, after insufficient evidence by the prosecution.
A Cane Grove businessman is counting around $40M in losses after his supermarket was destroyed by fire yesterday morning in what is suspected to be a case of arson.
Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Winston Cosbert was last evening handed terms of reference (TOSs) to probe allegations of unauthorised disclosure of information, mismanagement and malpractices in the procurement of pharmaceuticals at the Ministry of Public Health.
The National Assembly in the wee hours of Friday, approved more than $9.5 billion in supplemental budgetary spending including an additional $2 billion subsidy for the Guyana Sugar Corporation and hundreds of millions aimed at hinterland road works under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI).
The trial of Mark Royden Williams, Dennis Williams, called ‘Anaconda’, and Roger Simon, who are accused of murdering 12 persons, including three police officers at Bartica in 2008, commenced yesterday before Justice Roxane George at the High Court in Georgetown.
A former staff member of BK Quarries, yesterday denied a charge which alleged that he had embezzled over $28 million from the said company.
In order to ascertain whether the GB&GWU or the GLU represents the workers from Barama Company Limited (BCL), a meeting is set for tomorrow with the company and the Ministry of Social Protection.
A West Ruimveldt resident who allegedly shot his reputed wife in her mouth a little more than one month ago, yesterday morning turned himself over to the police.
A 23-year-Guyanese who was the subject of an Interpol red notice has been intercepted and is now awaiting a deportation hearing in front of an immigration judge.
Two businessmen from Linden and Diamond, East Bank Demerara have been taken into custody pending charges of illegal firearm and drug possession after they were intercepted by ranks in separate incidents at Omai Landing, Region 8.
In an effort to stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace, the Women & Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) yesterday launched its Suggestion Boxes initiative to deal with the issue.
President David Granger yesterday celebrated with Essequibo triplets – Radha, Rajshri and Reenica Mansaram on the occasion of their 22nd birthday, at his office at the Ministry of the Presidency.
The Guyana National Road Safety Council (GNRSC) will launch its ‘White Knight’ breathalyser campaign on Saturday, November 5, as part of efforts to reduce road fatalities.
A post-mortem examination (PME) conducted on the body of the Corentyne carpenter who was found lying lifeless on the Number 70 Public Road around 3.45 am on Tuesday, revealed that he died from a fractured skull.
Ricardo Hamilton, the newborn who fell on the floor and fractured his skull at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), is doing well, according to his mother, Nyesha Hamilton, but she still fears that he could exhibit effects from the injury as he gets older.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies were on the verge of their first Test win in 19 months and the first on foreign soil in four years but a nervous final day lay ahead of the unpredictable Caribbean side in their quest to capture the third and final Test against Pakistan.
Unless an arbitration process is commissioned, or the tourney is played using its original regulations, Slingerz FC, Alpha United, Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Pele have declared that they will not participate in the Elite League which is set to start on November 13th.
Tutorial High School won the East Georgetown zone after they upset defending champions St Joseph’s High yesterday as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) National Secondary School Cricket League (NSSCL) continued yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club ground, Bourda.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Batting coach Toby Radford has dismissed suggestions a West Indies win on today’s final day of the final Test is a formality, and has urged for calm heads as the Caribbean side seek to clinch their first win of an otherwise disappointing series.
Dear Editor, The dismissal of the criminal charges against Mr Carvil Duncan has several implications.
Local conglomerate, Banks DIH Limited through three of its brands will fuel and rehydrate the participants of the second annual GTM Health and Fitness Expo scheduled for this weekend at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
PRETORIA, (Reuters) – South Africa’s anti-graft watchdog called for a judge to investigate allegations of influence peddling in President Jacob Zuma’s government, in a report released yesterday as thousands of protesters called for the president to step down.
Dear Editor, Over the past year, Guyana’s big find has been hard to miss.
PENSACOLA, Fla./ LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump attacked one another’s character as they pushed their closing arguments six days before the U.S.
After a fascinating weekend on the saddle which featured gritty back-to-back wins, Jamal John will be a marked man by the peloton during this weekend’s three-stage road race.
Dear Editor, I applaud Mr Paul Fraser for coming to the rescue of a handicapped man who was allegedly assaulted by a minibus driver on the East Bank road, and wish to congratulate David Ramnarine (ag) Commissioner of Police for placing the driver before the court.
DES MOINES, Iowa, (Reuters) – A man known to police for several run-ins with the law, most recently for waving a Confederate flag at a football game, was arrested as a suspect in the ambush killings of two Iowa officers shot in their patrol cars early yesterday, authorities said.
Spinner Eon Hooper bagged five wickets for Chris Barnwell XI who head into the final day of the Guyana Jaguars 4-Day practice game at Everest, with a 20 run lead over Vishaul Singh’s XI.
The Guyana Amateur Weightlifting Association (GAWA) received a shot in the arm yesterday after its top brass received a quantity of weightlifting equipment from its parent body, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Some U.S. Supreme Court justices yesterday appeared wary about the foreign policy implications of making it too easy for foreign governments to be sued in U.S.
Dear Editor, Why is it some people feel they have a right to do to others as they like with impunity.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan said yesterday that he expected a Supreme Court corruption investigation to topple Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and repeated his calls for Sharif to resign immediately.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Tippi Hedren graphically chronicles in a new memoir incidents in which she says she was sexually assaulted and harassed by famed British director Alfred Hitchcock during her star turns in “The Birds” and “Marnie.”
Dear Editor, Since the general election in 2015, I have been advocating that the Ministry of Health place pictures of President David Granger and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo in health centres across Guyana.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Patients going for surgery should bathe or shower beforehand but their surgical site should not be shaved, and antibiotics should be used to prevent infections before and during surgery, but not afterwards, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – Bill Cosby yesterday renewed his attempt to have sexual assault charges against him thrown out, with the comedian’s lawyers arguing in a Pennsylvania court that an 11-year gap between the incident and Cosby’s arrest had violated his rights.
HARARE, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka ended Zimbabwe’s day-long resistance seven overs from the end of play to grab victory by 225 runs on the final day of the first test at the Harare Sports Club yesterday.
JACKSON, Miss., (Reuters) – A historic black church in Mississippi was burned and spray-painted with “Vote Trump” and authorities said yesterday it was arson and being probed as a hate crime committed one week before the U.S.
The big-boned, but skinny old man in the worn gown, lay long on the fat pillow and thin plastic blue liner of an anonymous Miami hospital bed, the name tag sliding down his wrist, the shock of thick white hair and hard green eyes small set in the sallow, splotchy face framed by wild bushy brows.
(Reuters) – Armed robbers stole around 2,000 ounces of gold worth $2.6 million at current prices from Yamana Gold Inc’s Jacobina mine in northeast Brazil last month, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Oscar-winning director Ang Lee brought his latest movie “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” to his native Taiwan on Wednesday, a war drama the filmmaker has sought to turn into a strikingly immersive experience.
After years of frustration and terror for some and a US$20,000 consultancy, Guyana’s 911 police emergency service remains problematic.
The sixth annual International softball cricket tournament organised by the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) will bowl off tomorrow and end Sunday at the Demerara Cricket Club ground in Queenstown.
Dear Editor, Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation is an event that seems locked in a proverbial time capsule even though the very existence of the tens of thousands of Christian denominations today tell the silent tale of one man’s revolution against the powers of the day.
NAIROBI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Kenyan police officer has been jailed for 20 years for raping a 13-year-old girl, despite saying they are now married, in a case campaigners heralded as a breakthrough in justice in a country where such convictions are rare.
Whose right of way? This lorry (right) was heading west, on Quamina Street last night when it hit this 44 mini bus which was heading south on Camp St.
