Daily Archive: Monday, August 21, 2017

  CHARLESTON, S.C./SHERIDAN, Oregon, (Reuters) – As millions of awestruck Americans cast their gaze skyward on Monday at the extraordinary sight of a total solar eclipse, one Connecticut man had his eyes set firmly on a different prize.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Talismanic opener Chris Gayle is poised to play his first One-Day International in 29 months after being named today in a 15-man squad for the five-match tour of England next month.

  Hotelier Clifton Bacchus today filed a $2 billion lawsuit against the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper following its publication of two recent articles which he has described as “highly defamatory.”

LONDON, (Reuters) – The gradual decline of West Indian cricket is hardly a new phenomenon but the latest capitulation of a once-dominant test match power has brought genuine expressions of sadness throughout the sport.

Eleven residents of the juvenile correctional centre at Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast were apprehended between yesterday and this morning.

Guyana Amazon Warriors completed a last over four- wicket victory over the Barbados Tridents to keep their chances of qualifying for the playoffs alive in this edition of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) on the back of opener, Chadwick Walton at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence, last evening.

With growing pressure on the government over the overcrowding of jails, MP Michael Carrington is confident that the parliamentary bill in his name to ease penalties on marijuana use will gain the support of the governing APNU+AFC benches of which he is a member.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies part-time off-spinner Kraigg Brathwaite has been reported to the International Cricket Council for having a suspect bowling action, following the Caribbean side’s humbling innings and 209-run defeat at Edgbaston here Saturday.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  CMC – Under-fire West Indies captain Jason Holder has urged his players not to lose confidence despite their embarrassing innings defeat inside three days in the day/night opening Test at Edgbaston.

The National Toshaos Council (NTC) is to begin its conference today and high on the agenda will likely be ongoing concerns about the lands commission of inquiry (CoI) which the government has convened.

(Reuters) – Spanish fourth seed Garbine Muguruza played flawlessly to crush Simona Halep 6-1 6-0 in a one-sided women’s final at the Cincinnati Open yesterday.

A Trinidad-based medical products company has secured four contracts worth $135.4m.

Dear Editor, The Mayor and City Council has noticed with concern statements emanating from different organizations and groups with respect to the current solid waste management situation affecting the city.

Dear Editor, Recently, sections of the local media inaccurately cited the statistics on suicide from the World Health Organization (WHO) when they reported that Guyana’s suicide rate stands at 20.6 per 100,000 in 2015.

The police on Friday evening discovered an AK-47 assault rifle and a quantity of ammunition in a haversack at Kingston, Georgetown.

Future Stars continued their meteoric rise on the ‘street football circuit’, defeating Back Circle 1-0 to clinch the 3rd Annual Xtra Beer ‘Ballers in the Summer’ Street Football Championship on Saturday.

A parcel consisting of 1,154 grammes of marijuana was intercepted after being thrown over the north eastern fence of the New Amsterdam Prison on Saturday afternoon.

Pacesetters and Kobras secured wins in the u23 section, when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) League Championship continued on Saturday at the Burnham Court, Middle and Carmichael streets.

Dear Editor, On March 20th, 2017 a letter of mine captioned ‘Michael Carrington’s marijuana Bill should be looked at again’ was published by Stabroek News.

BIRMINGHAM, England, (Reuters) – Mo Farah brought down the curtain on his peerless track career in Britain by winning his farewell race on home soil on an emotional afternoon at the Birmingham Grand Prix Diamond League meeting yesterday.

Dear Editor, With each passing day, this government is demonstrating, with excruciating clarity, that it is incapable of operating within a constitutional construct in which the Constitution is supreme and where executive power must not only be exercised within the bounds of that Constitution but also that every action of the executive government must comply with and conform to the rule of law.

The US$46.M West Coast Demerara Road Improve-ment Project is 75 percent complete according to the Ministry of Public Infra-structure, Senior Projects Engineer, Kester Hinds.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Guyana remained unbeaten in the Regional Under-19 one-day Championship when they beat Jamaica by 16 runs in round two here Saturday.

A Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast businessman is to be charged today over the possession of narcotics  found in his chicken pen and other sections of his home.

Dear Editor,   I suppose I should have the decency, if not class, to say something, anything. 

LONDON,  CMC – West Indies great Michael Holding has reignited the discussion of two a two-tier system in world cricket, in the wake of the Caribbean side’s devastating innings defeat to England at Edgbaston.

The driver of the bus, which was involved in an accident along the Number 19 Public Road was on Friday read the charge of driving under the influence of alcohol when he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court and he pleaded guilty.

Dear Editor, It has been several days now since a stop demolition order was issued preventing the continued demolition of the building that once was the Astor Cinema, since mandatory by-laws were breached.

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) will not be intervening in any arrangement made between a home owner and a contractor since it is viewed as a private agreement, Chief Executive Officer Lelon Saul said while issuing a  call for regulations to govern contractors.

League leader Den Amstel suffered their first loss in the West Demerara zone of the NAMILCO U17 Football League, going down 4-2 to Eagles FC yesterday at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground.

HONG KONG/SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – A money laundering probe at Commonwealth Bank of Australia is the latest in a slew of scandals denting the reputation of Australian banks as simple, reliable lenders at the forefront in the battle against financial crime.

Dear Editor, With reference to a letter published in your newspaper on August 18 captioned ‘Unauthorised group soliciting donations for Belle Vue sports club’, I am sure that you were not aware of the full facts of the matter before publication.

Dear Editor, Many of the youngsters on this West Indian team will have left the field Saturday night wondering whether they can play cricket at this level.

After spending nearly three weeks in the Georgetown Public Hospital following a horrific accident at the corner of Camp and Robb streets in June, Malvena Hope is slowly on the road to recovery.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe returned from South Africa early yesterday, state media reported, after a 20-year-old model accused her of assault in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room.

DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka, (Reuters) – India opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan smashed an unbeaten 132 off 90 deliveries to help his side thrash hosts Sri Lanka by nine wickets in the first of five one-day internationals yesterday.

President David Granger yesterday urged the members of the Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM), a core group of the International Decade of People of African Descent (IDPAD) to refine and erect an “economical structure” in its quest to implement programmes that would improve the quality of life of people of African Descent.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Australia have an opportunity to improve their record in Asia when they meet Bangladesh in a two-test series starting next Sunday, captain Steve Smith has said but refused to state outright if his side were favourites to win.

By David Abdulah David Abdulah, an economist, served as chief education and research officer at the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union, Trinidad and Tobago, as well as president of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and NGOs (FITUN).

  SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Ten sailors are missing after a U.S.

Dear Editor, I informed GTT that both my landline and internet services were down as on 30th June.

  Ian Campbell: `I didn’t follow from game one but I am a fan of CPL.

Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Friday  said that the responsibilities of recently reassigned minister Dawn Hastings-Williams will include occasionally accompanying President David Granger on travels both locally and abroad.

Article 226 (1) of the Constitution states, “save as otherwise provided in this Constitution, in the exercise of its functions under this Constitution, a Commission (service commissions) shall not be subject to the direction or control of any other person or authority.”

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Wretched St Lucia Stars earned their first points of the 2017 Caribbean Premier League campaign, after rain washed out their contest against in-form St Kitts and Nevis Patriots here Saturday night.

(Trinidad Express) Sports Company of Trinidad and Tobago (SPORTT) has given Shanghai Construc-tion Group (SCG) until noon today to vacate and demolish buildings which have been illegally erected and occupied for more than a year on the eastern side of the National Cycling Velodrome in Couva.

Where public resources are concerned or where the public interest is involved, there must be the highest degree of transparency in relation to the actions of both elected and non-elected public officials.

Dear Editor, I am not in the habit of responding to columnists or letter writers.

A Sophia resident who tried to escape from police was yesterday morning arrested after he was chased on foot.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in film as well as a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon, died on Sunday at the age of 91, his family said.