Daily Archive: Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Articles published on Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Madison Baird-Sampson

Woman fined for falsely claiming she is only child

“If I had known it was an offence to say I was an only child, then I would not have done it,” East Ruimveldt resident Madison Baird Sampson yesterday told a city court, which fined her a total of $200,000 for falsely claiming she was only child so that she could sell her deceased mother’s house.

Anatomy of a bungled submission by gov’t on gay rights to IACHR

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge says that government’s submission on gay rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) may have been “badly put together” but it only made a reference to a possibility rather than stated definitely that a referendum would be held to decide whether to decriminalise same sex intimacy.

 Guyana Football federation Executive Committee member Dion Inniss, left, hands over the footballs to a villager of Hosororo region One. (Photo courtesy of GFF)

GFF’s Inniss presents footballs to Region One

Executive Committee Member of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Dion Inniss, conducted a successful fact-finding mission in Region One as the GFF seeks to expand its membership in response to the interest expressed by the residents of the Region, a press release from the GFF states.

GBTI’s Head of Banking Operations, Collette Lyken-Ramdial (left) handing over the donation to Dr Bibi Alladin-Karan of the New-Born Screening project

3,200 new-borns tested for sickle cell at GPHC

An ongoing project aimed at testing new-born babies for Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA), as part of the contribution by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) to the development of the local health sector, has seen the screening of some 3,200 new-born infants to date.

David Sancaro

T&T man uses van to kill teen

(Trinidad Guardian) When 17-year-old David Sancaro rushed to a bar to protect a woman he didn’t even know from physical abuse being meted out by her enraged lover on Sunday, little did he know his gallantry would have cost him his life.

Brenessa Thompson 

AGG says visa issues with George cleared up

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) has shortlisted four athletes to represent Guyana at the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) World Track and Field Championships including Olympian Winston George who reportedly was having visa issues.

Blueprint for local sports organisations

On the 29th April this year the Department of Tourism within the Ministry of Business held a Sports Tourism/Workshop which brought together sports associations, business and tourism entities, and the diplomatic corps with the aim of identifying the lines of action needed for the development of a successful sports tourism industry.

Class, ethnicity and jail

Last year, when considering the establishment of the Commission of Inquiry into the March 2016 prison disturbances in which 17 inmates lost their lives, I made two recommendations having to do with imprisonment and sentencing, which I am following up on here, because I believe they are still important to how our criminal justice system develops and is responded to by those in jail.