Daily Archive: Friday, January 13, 2017

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Actress Priyanka Chopra is resting at home after a “minor incident” on the set of her ABC show “Quantico,” the network said Friday.

The management of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) is apologising to commuters for the extended opening of the bridge yesterday, GINA said, attributing this to work that was needed to prevent a section of the structure from  collapsing.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A comic film about Michael Jackson was dropped by British makers on Friday after the daughter of the late American pop star described the episode, which casts a white actor to play her father, as vomit-inducing.

Work will begin in the first quarter of this year to install Public Internet Access Points (PIAPs) at public buildings, GINA said today.

Agriculture Minister, Noel Holder accompanied by a team of technical officers yesterday conducted an outreach exercise in the Mahaica, Mahaicony and Abary areas to have dialogue with farmers, according to a press release from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Police during a search, early this morning of several apartments in Rasville, Georgetown, detained nine persons inclusive of three females, after they found sixteen live rounds of different calibres of ammunition and one hundred and eighty ecstasy pills.

(Trinidad Express) RBC Royal Bank is looking to merge branches in west and south Trinidad and as a result will be cutting jobs.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said he would propose to President David Granger that they jointly approach the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to interpret the constitutional requirements for the appointment of a Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) chairperson.

Using his country’s experience as a model, former Minister of Energy of Trinidad and Tobago, Kevin Ramnarine yesterday urged that Guyana establish a national oil and gas company to manage its huge oil find but that it be insulated from political interference.

Six men yesterday carted off almost six million dollars from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) office at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara in a well-planned robbery.

Two families lost their homes after a midday fire at Cummings Lodge yesterday.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday issued an apology to the army for a post on his Facebook page that said the army was part of the team that broke the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre’s signboard at Red House.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Monday signed a US$45.3m concessional loan from the Exim-Import Bank of China for the widening of the Better Hope to Belfield section of the East Coast Demerara Highway.

Chinese-owned bauxite company Bosai Minerals (Guyana) Inc will be shipping 24,000 tonnes of bauxite through a transshipment station owned by Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc.

Tiffany Peters, a former court clerk who was pardoned by President David Granger last year after she was convicted for stealing $3.2 million from the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts Registry, was yesterday faced with a new charge alleging that she also stole $1.1 million from the registry.

A man was assaulted by fellow detainees in the lock-ups of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday.

Almost a dozen cosmetologists yesterday showed up for work only to find that their workstations, along the Merriman Mall between Light and Cummings streets, had been demolished by City Hall.

An Albouystown woman told a court on Wednesday that she set ablaze and damaged her mother-in-law’s property, because her husband, the woman’s son was abusing her.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Kevin Stephens, the MMC Security Force guard who allegedly shot and killed his colleague Hubert Verwayne, has been set for February.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Williams on Wednesday testified to receiving forged documents belonging to Anjanie Boodnarine, the reputed wife of convicted drug lord Barry Dataram.

Former Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Chief Christopher Matthias said that CONCACAF is within its right to debar Slingerz FC and Alpha United from participating in the 2017 CFU Club Championship.

Due to the inclement weather in the latter half of 2016, the rugby 7s season has been extended to January 21 with the Guinness 7s.

A minibus driver was on Wednesday charged with seven offences, including, the assault of a cop on duty, while his conductor was charged with obstructing the officer from carrying out his duties and the use of indecent language.

Berbice police have captured  two men who are accused of robbing the owners of the Good Life Supermarket, located in Hampshire Village, Corentyne on Tuesday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Haiti remained the region’s No.1 side, but recent opponents Suriname made the most waves in the latest Caribbean Football Union rankings.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Following are the Caribbean Football Union rankings after the release of the World Rankings by FIFA, the sport’s world governing body, on Thursday.

Police Constable Chester Benjamin, who identified Roger Simon as being one of the gunmen at the scene of the deadly attack at Bartica in which 12 men were massacred in 2008, yesterday conceded that the first time he saw the man was in the lock-ups at the Mackenzie Police Station.

At least three times a month, cockfighting events are held at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, according to a resident.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former Sports Minister Brent Sancho says the dramatic resignation of men’s head coach Tom Saintfiet has left Football Association president, David John-Williams, with plenty explaining to do.

LONDON,  CMC – Nottinghamshire are weighing up another move for West Indies Twenty20 star Andre Russell, as they seek to strengthen for next summer’s T20 Blast.

A man was arrested after police yesterday discovered a high-power weapon in an apartment complex at Turn Drive, East La Penitence, South Georgetown.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies and Pakistan Cricket Boards have agreed to play three Tests, three One-Day-Internationals and two Twenty20 matches in the Caribbean from Monday, March 27 to Monday, May 15.

Eustace Griffith, the man accused of killing Stabroek Market handyman Steven Arthur in July of last year, was yesterday committed to stand trial.

According to the Ministry of Public Infrastructure’s Chief Roads and Bridges Officer, Ron Rahaman, works on the Kitty seawall road sinkhole should begin before the end of the month.

Dear Editor, In an SN letter of Jan. 10, engineer Charles Ceres has opined that the marginalization of the Afro-Guyanese community has had adverse effects on the recent flooding of large sections of Buxton.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Real Madrid set a Spanish record of 40 matches unbeaten in all competitions after they came back from two goals behind to snatch a 3-3 draw at Sevilla with a last-gasp equaliser from Karim Benzema in the King’s Cup on Thursday.

As part of the City Council’s ongoing programme to reclaim spaces that are being used illegally, a team yesterday removed a container and demolished a shed adjoining the Electronics City building on Sheriff Street.

(Reuters) – It is always risky to tick off your own supporters, but Jose Mourinho’s pointed plea to Manchester United’s faithful not to treat Liverpool’s visit like a trip to the theatre indicates just how critical Sunday’s Old Trafford clash feels to him.

Dear Editor, It is with dismay that we read in the Stabroek News of 12/1/2017, the letter written by Nowrang Persaud headlined `Berbice needs a `Palms’’and his disparaging remarks about the Dharm Shala Berbice.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Hashim Amla became the eighth player to score a century in their 100th test as he guided South Africa to a commanding 338 for three at the close of play on day one of the third and final test against Sri Lanka at The Wanderers on Thursday.

Dear Editor, Thank you for allowing us the space in your newspaper to express our sincere gratitude to the public and your paper for support and assistance rendered to our son, Omkar Persaud, and to inform you of his present condition.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state has set a course for a potentially serious confrontation with Beijing, saying China should be denied access to islands it has built in the contested South China Sea.

Kyle Archer, the Barbadian national who was last month sentenced to four years in jail for trafficking in cocaine, was also facing a charge of rape in his home country and his incarceration here has left his mother facing a three-month sentence if she doesn’t fork over half the amount that was set for his bail.

(Gracenote) – Scoreboard at lunch on the second day in the first Test between New Zealand and Bangladesh, today in Wellington, New Zealand.

MELBOURNE, Australia, , CMC – A disruptive spell from West Indies Twenty20 star spinner Sunil Narine for Melbourne Renegades was upstaged by a maiden Twenty20 hundred from Ben McDermott that set up a thrilling, record two-wicket victory for the Hobart Hurricanes in a high-scoring Big Bash League match on Thursday.

Dear Editor, Whilst currently in Trinidad and Tobago I need to obtain urgently police clearance from the Guyana Police Service for my wife and myself. 

Stakeholders yesterday began a dialogue that is the first phase in the development of a “concept note” to be sent to the Global Fund as Guyana attempts to access US$3.9M in funding to fight HIV/AIDS.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Christopher Steele, who wrote reports on compromising material Russian operatives allegedly had collected on U.S.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – China faces a one-year ban from international weightlifting competitions after three of its athletes were stripped of their 2008 Olympic gold medals on Thursday following re-tests of samples from the Beijing Games.

Dear Editor, This morning I received some telephone calls from the residents of Wakenaam Island, saying that they have been suffering from certain problems for years and it seems as though these will never end.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic will launch his bid for a record seventh Australian Open title with a mouth-watering first round match against Fernando Verdasco.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Talks to resolve the decades-old division of Cyprus ended without agreement yesterday but with a plan for officials to reconvene on Jan.

Dear Editor, The move by the government to set up a law school in Guyana seems to be getting a negative response from top lawyers in the diaspora.

The accident that led to the death of GPL linesman Brian Clifford in Belvidere, Corentyne last Tuesday was a “freak accident” and could not have been predicted, says GPL’s PRO, who said that the utility pole that collapsed had been tested before being mounted by the worker.

A Charlestown woman was on Wednesday remanded to prison after she was charged with being in possession of 106 grammes of cannabis.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under fire for holidaying on a Caribbean island owned by the Aga Khan, on Thursday revealed he had flown there by private helicopter – an apparent breach of official ethics rules.

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CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela rounded up a dissident former general and two other regional politicians yesterday in what the opposition called a wave of repression by socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Obama administration said yesterday it was repealing a measure granting automatic residency to virtually every Cuban who arrived in the United States, whether or not they had visas, ending a longstanding exception to U.S.

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Yes, here I go again early in this still “new” year.

Dear Editor, A denial of human rights is tantamount to a crime against humanity, which is oftentimes clothed in the verbiage of intolerance and religious views.

Three youths were yesterday released on $50,000 bail each after they denied a charge that they stole an ATV in the interior.

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Agony for Stranded Passengers Jobs in danger By SHARIEF KHAN BAIJNAUTH, of Flushing, Queens in New York, his wife and three children should have been back in New York since January 4.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s attorney general said on Thursday Brazilian construction company Odebrecht has made a verbal agreement to pay $59 million in reparations for bribes it paid in Panama to win business in the country between 2010 in 2014.

matches Magic Johnson’s tally in ‘81/82 Thunder 103, Grizzlies 95 (The Sports Xchange) Russell Westbrook collected his 18th triple-double to lead Oklahoma City to a victory over Memphis at the Chesapeake Energy Arena.

Protecting children from abuse, neglect, outright violence, and exploitation is a responsibility that first and foremost lies with the parents or legal guardians of the children, and it is normal to expect that those parents and guardians will go out of their way to ensure the safety of their offspring or wards.

The trial of the three men accused in the Ramada Princess Casino robbery is set to start next month after several delays.