Daily Archive: Thursday, May 11, 2017

The following update has been released by the Department of Public Information: All work on the installation of the arch has been stopped and will resume tonight.

Traffic is moving at a snail’s pace along the East Coast corridor, as contractors work towards erecting an Arch at Cummings Lodge on the Rupert Craig Highway.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police believe a love affair gone sour led to the murder of a woman and the suicide of her lover in Bristol Village, Mayaro, yesterday.

While the Ministry of Education has plans to have the builder for the problem-riddled Kato Secondary School  – Kares Engineering – fix the major defects at its own cost  for a September opening, the contractor up to yesterday was unaware of this.

The husband of Charmoney Charlie, the Crabwood Creek woman who died from a stab wound she claimed was self-inflicted, yesterday confessed to stabbing her during a misunderstanding at their home last Friday, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum.

Guyana yesterday received commitments from Hess Corporation to support environmental sustainability and preservation projects here, and discussed the University of Guyana, the Iwokrama Conservation and Research Centre and education initiatives as a starting point.

A police officer is currently under close arrest, after he allegedly accepted a bribe of $500,000 to provide the family of Azeez Khan with advice on how to cover up his killing and make it appear that he died from a fall.

President David Granger is yet to make public if he has selected any of the six nominees submitted to him by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo more than one week ago, for Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

A Bagotstown resident was yesterday sentenced in absentia by the Chief Magistrate to five years in prison for armed robbery.

President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association, Godfrey Munroe said yesterday that Guyana’s table tennis contingent to the upcoming Islamic Solidarity Games will reap benefits beyond their attendance at the Baku, Azerbaijan event.

Two-time junior Caribbean squash champion, Shomari Wiltshire hardly broke a sweat on the opening night of the Woodpecker Products junior national squash championships at the Georgetown Club squash court, last evening.

As the police continue to probe the murder of Sophia bread vendor, Andre Alexander, a second person has been arrested after he was allegedly seen in the company of the soldier – who is suspected of involvement – before the crime was committed.

Traffic Chief Dion Moore says that the extension of the barriers around parliament square on Monday during the sitting of the National Assembly was as a result of the demonstrations.

KABUL, Afghanistan, CMC – Selectors have opted for experience in two squads chosen to tour West Indies for three One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals next month.Captain

Jamal Forde, the second man charged with the murder of Sophia businessman Shawn Anys, who was killed almost two years ago by armed bandits, was last week committed to stand trial by a magistrate.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies were frustrated by rainy weather along with half-centuries from Azhar Ali and Babar Azam as Pakistan got the better of the exchanges on the opening day of the decisive third Test here yesterday.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Zinedine Zidane was thrilled to steer Real Madrid to a second consecutive Champions League final in which his team will bid to defend their title against his former club Juventus.

Government yesterday deployed a team of engineers and other experts from various agencies to Coomacka Village, Upper Demerara-Berbice (Region Ten), to explore several short, medium and long-term solutions to flooding and siltation which has wrought havoc in the area.

The protest against VAT on private education tuition continued yesterday with protestors calling on the government to suspend the tax for the remainder of the year, before completely removing it in 2018.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s Shashank Manohar has withdrawn his resignation as chairman of the InternationalCricket Council (ICC) and will complete his term which ends in June next year, the governing body said yesterday.

Sixteen-year-old national table tennis ace, Miguel Wong received further words of encouragement from President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA), Kalam Juman-Yassin yesterday.

At Travis McDougall’s trial yesterday for the murder of Ashok Raghoo, Police Corporal Derwin Eastman could not account for video footage he claimed to have seen and the presiding judge ordered that the prosecution make every effort to have it presented McDougall is accused of murdering the businessman during an alleged robbery on August 18, 2014, at Vlissengen Road.

(The Sports Xchange) – An unusual situation for San Antonio led to a series of atypical plays and unexpected strategy in the Spurs’ 110-107 victory over the Houston Rockets on Tuesday in Game 5 of their Western Conference semi-final series at the AT&T Center.

Eileen Aguila, the Cuban dentist who was charged in January with conspiracy to forge an immigration stamp, and uttering a forged document, had the matters discharged by a city magistrate yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – FBI Director James Comey, days before President Donald Trump fired him, told lawmakers he sought more resources for his agency’s probe into possible collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 U.S.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) says it is “deeply pained and saddened” at the passing of Tchaiko Kawayana on Saturday in the USA following a struggle with cancer.

A man is now homeless after a relative of unsound mind allegedly set his Diamond, East Bank Demerara, home on fire yesterday morning.

CURITIBA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made a fiery defence against corruption charges leveled against him during five hours of testimony yesterday in his first appearance before a crusading anti-corruption judge trying the case.

Dear Editor, The APNU regime has recently very proudly announced that it has greatly increased revenue collection.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Young Venezuelan protesters lobbed bottles and bags of feces at soldiers who fought with tear gas on Wednesday to block the latest march in more than a month of nationwide protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

A Number Two Village, East Canje, woman is presently nursing injuries to her throat after she was choked by a lone armed perpetrator, who invaded her home on Tuesday morning and robbed her of cash and jewellery.

Dear Editor, I attended the statutory meeting of the RDC Region 2 recently where several pressing issues were ventilated by councillors on both sides of the house.

Dear Editor, Thank you for the opportunity to respond to Mr.

KANPUR, India, CMC – West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite yet again failed to make an impression but his Delhi Daredevils still managed to pull off a two-wicket win over Dwayne Smith’s Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League here yesterday.

Residents of Mainstay in Region Two (Pomeroon/ Supenaam) have been promised that a dormitory will be built to accommodate teachers from the coast.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Pharmacies in Chile’s capital Santiago will start selling cannabis-based medicines this week, the first time such treatments have been offered by drug stores in Latin America, the companies behind the launch said yesterday.

Well-travelled AIBA’ Three-star and Olympic referee, James Beckles is of the opinion that once the Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors Tournament is well marketed and developed, it has the potential to be part of Guyana’s Sports Tourism industry.

The Guyana Used Tyres Association says it will continue protesting for the government to rescind its decision to ban the importation of used tyres.

Elite Referee Gladwyn Johnson will represent Guyana at the CONCACAF Targeted Advanced Referee Programme (TARP) from today until Sunday in Dallas, Texas, United States of America.

The sum of 65 male and female track and field athletes from various clubs across the country have been named on a long list ahead of the two-day South American U-20 Championship scheduled to be staged here from June 3rd.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s new liberal President Moon Jae-in was sworn in yesterday and vowed to tackle immediately the difficult tasks of addressing North Korea’s advancing nuclear ambitions and soothing tensions with the United States and China.

Dear Editor, There are many bakeries making whole wheat bread but are they making real whole wheat bread?

Dear Editor, In February 2015, I participated together with former workers of Precision Woodworking Ltd.

(Trinidad Guardian) Marcia Ayers-Caesar now stands accused of misleading Chief Justice Ivor Archie and members of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) and will not be returning to the bench of the Magistrates’ Court any time soon.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Argentines protested yesterday against a Supreme Court ruling that could decrease jail time for those convicted of human rights abuses during the country’s 1976 – 1983 military dictatorship that killed as many as 30,000 people.

Rickland ‘Tallo’ Hutson, coordinator of the recent Stag Beer Linden Inter-Ward Football championships says the event was borne out of the vision to recreate rivalry amongst the respective communities.

The European Union (EU) is ready to work with Guyana on its planned transition to a `Green’ state, according to its Ambassador here, Jernej Videtic. 

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has formally announced its final squad to tackle Barbados in the RAN 15s Championship opener on Saturday at the Garrison Savannah.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Activists yesterday urged U.S. authorities to extend a special immigration status for 50,000 refugees from earthquake-hit Haiti, fearing they may be thrown out of the United States.

A mason was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with being in possession of cannabis.

The touching tableau of six slender bronze statues with their simple ship bundles, envisioned by two of Guyana’s leading artists should have been standing in all of its shining glory a week ago to commemorate the historic May 5 1838 arrival of the first East Indian indentured immigrants.

Following the success of the Guyana Golden Jubilee Independence 5K Health & Fitness Walk and a 5K and 10K run last year, the organizers will team up again this year for a sequel.

(Reuters) – A West Virginia journalist was arrested and jailed after following U.S.

Dear Editor, Much has been said recently about the President’s visit to the United Kingdom but not much was revealed about the outcome of what in effect appears to be a junket.

Dr Noel Blackman, a former Guyana minister of health, is soon to be sentenced in the United States for his role in providing a large number of people in that country with prescriptions for oxycodone, a drug known as an opioid, which while useful in providing pain relief, leads to addiction.