Edghill drama
Drama continued at Parliament today around PPP/C MP Juan Edghill who was later charged with breaching a police barricade and went of his own volition to the Brickdam Police Station to hear the charge against him.
Articles published on Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Drama continued at Parliament today around PPP/C MP Juan Edghill who was later charged with breaching a police barricade and went of his own volition to the Brickdam Police Station to hear the charge against him.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today said that the involvement of the police in the ruckus yesterday around PPP/C MP Juan Edghill was an “unacceptable overreaction”.
(Reuters) – Chris Gayle hit 18 sixes on his way to an unbeaten 146 off 69 balls for Rangpur Riders against Dhaka Dynamites to create Twenty20 cricket history in the Bangladesh Premier League final on Tuesday.
After two years, President David Granger will on Friday hold a press conference, only the second since his APNU+AFC party came into government in May 2015.
PPP/C Members of Parliament this morning walked out of the Committee of Supply following Chairman Dr.
WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s bowlers steadily chipped away at the West Indies lineup to record a ruthless 240-run victory shortly before tea on the fourth day of the second test at Seddon Park in Hamilton on Tuesday to wrap up a 2-0 series sweep.
(Trinidad Guardian) Special Reserve police officer Richard Babwah was killed last evening during an attempted robbery at a Chinese restaurant in Arouca.
Photos by Keno George The start of the consideration of the estimates of the revenue and expenditure for 2018 descended into chaos yesterday when opposition MPs faced off against police over a bid to physically remove member Juan Edghill from the parliament chamber and PPP/C members claim they were assaulted in the ensuing melee.
The body of an 18-year-old Qualfon employee was yesterday morning discovered in a cemetery at Triumph, East Coast Demerara with her face mutilated and the police have since arrested five persons for questioning.
Dear Editor, As I write this letter I am looking at photos of opposition members of parliament being removed from the chambers by police.
Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Barton Scotland said last night that PPP/C Parliamentarian Juan Edghill has been suspended after unprecedented chaos in the House yesterday and he said he was unaware that the police had been called into deal with the unrest.
Dear Editor, I write in response to an article carried in the Guyana Times on Monday, December 4, 2017, titled, ‘US$50M Windfarm – PPP demands answers on controversial project’.
Acting Chief Justice Roxane George has ruled that President David Granger acted unlawfully when he revoked the leases for lands belonging to a group of Seafield, West Coast Berbice farmers.
Following the abandonment of their semi-final matchup, defending champion Sparta Boss and 2012 winner Leopold Street, will lock horns today from 17:00hrs, at the National Cultural Center Tarmac in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Zone.
Jason Abdulla, one of the three men charged with dousing newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon with human faeces, was sentenced to six months in jail yesterday, while his two co-accused in the crime, fellow PPP member Kwame McCoy and former bodyguard Sean Hinds, were found not guilty.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Police Force is responding to a letter in the September 9 edition of the Stabroek News that appeared as well in the other dailies, under the caption ‘Cruel treatment of calf in police compound at No 51’.
HAMILTON, New Zealand, CMC – Opener Kieran Powell completed a ‘pair’ to leave West Indies in dire straits in their pursuit of a world record target of 444 runs, after Ross Taylor’s 17th Test hundred put New Zealand in a near invincible position, in the seond and final Test here yesterday.
Dear Editor, I am pleased to inform you that the issue of Hindus celebrating religious holidays on different dates has now been resolved.
Former acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh yesterday rejected claims by the Attorney General’s Chambers linking him to a purported about-face by the Council of Legal Education (CLE) on the establishment of a local law school.
The opening night of the fifth annual Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA)/GT Beer Football Championship got off to an unfavorable start as the feature matchup between Eagles and High Stars was abandoned due to fighting.
Dear Editor, Parliament is the most distressing thing to look at, with the potential to give you immediate ulcers if you listen for too long.
-says keen attention will be paid to 2020 elections The private sector is the driver of economic development and entrepreneurship is the driver of the private sector.
Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin says that he believes that the decision taken by Cabinet to not release the ExxonMobil contract from the inception or make public that it collected a US$18M signing bonus was in the people’s best interest.
(Reuters) – Holders Real Madrid will have to overcome a sizeable obstacle when the Champions League resumes in February after yesterday’s draw pitted the 12-times winners against Paris St Germain.
Rosignol United and Hopetown FC secured lopsided wins when the GT Beer Berbice 8-a-side football tournament continued on Sunday at the Scott’s School ground, New Amsterdam (NA).
Dear Editor, Junior Minister of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes, in her contribution to the 2018 National Budget debate on December 6, 2017, among other things, spoke about the re-employment of Skeldon Estate worker, Daniel Stephens who, it is recalled, was dismissed in September, 2014 after an altercation with the then Estate Manager.
Dear Editor, Let me be very clear: Minister Raphael Trotman and Minister Winston Jordan are creatures of President David Granger.
Though the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) is saying that it has not received all the documents requested from the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) in its US$500 million Guyana Rice Development Board probe, the bank continues to maintain that it has handed over all the documents.
A 27-year-old businessman was on Sunday night held at gunpoint and robbed of his motorcar as he was about to enter his Westminster, West Bank Demerara premises.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Rain and defiant batting led by their captain Denesh Ramdin came to the rescue of Trinidad & Tobago Red Force and earned them a draw with Jamaica Scorpions in the Regional 4-Day Champ-ionship on Sunday.
Dear Editor, The majority side of the aisle in the hallowed Chamber led by the leader of that side, chose to walk out when the leader of the opposite side rose to make concluding remarks to the week long budget debate.
Dear Editor, Being at one time the point man for rice and paddy on the Essequibo Coast and a former rice extension officer, it is welcome news to hear from the Minister of Agriculture new markets to push rice growth (KN, December 11).
A Kitty man was yesterday remanded to prison on charges for the unlicensed possession of a pistol and ammunition, which police say he tried to use during a robbery in which he was shot.
HAMILTON, New Zealand, CMC – West Indies assistant coach Toby Radford was quick to invoke memories of the now famous Headingley run chase, after the Caribbean were handed a world-record target of 444 runs to win the second Test at Seddon Park.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies opener Johnson Charles stroked his maiden Twenty20 hundred to propel Chris Gayle’s Rangpur Riders to a 36-run over Comilla Victorians and into today’s final of the Bangladesh Premier League.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Warring sides must let more aid get through to 8.4 million people who are “a step away from famine” in Yemen, a senior U.N.
Despite signing an agreement to pay their workers monies owed as a result of overpaid tax, the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI) is yet to give a clear indication of when the workers will be reimbursed and Union representatives say they are keen on a company-wide strike from today if answers are not provided.
Dear Editor, The government erred terribly on how it allowed ExxonMobil developments to get ahead of it, and to its detriment.
A Berbice taxi driver was yesterday remanded to prison on a ganja trafficking charge after police said he was found with almost 14 pounds of cannabis in a car that he crashed while trying to evade them.
Dear Editor, I must commend Robert McRae for his courage and clarity of thought after he stated the case so clearly in relation to the ExxonMobil signing bonus deception and called for the sacking of all those involved.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi man set off a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York City commuter hub during the morning rush hour yesterday, officials said, immediately calling it an attempted terrorist attack.
(Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday urged a federal appeals court to issue an order blocking a lawsuit over climate change brought by a group of Oregon teenagers, warning that allowing it to go forward could lead to a constitutional crisis.
(Reuters) – Bangladesh have named all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan as test captain in place of Mushfiqur Rahim ahead of the two-match test series against Sri Lanka in January, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Sunday.
Dear Editor, The issue of sexual harassment has gained much prominence in the United States within the past few weeks.
A $24 million subvention from the Ministry of Communities was voted by city councillors yesterday to be used for the rehabilitation of the East Ruimveldt Market.
Junior Allen, the man who was shot last Friday after the violent robbery of a security guard, pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to 56 months in prison by a city magistrate yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department yesterday condemned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s threat to ban opposition parties from participating in next year’s presidential elections.
(Reuters) – Former Pakistan batsman Nasir Jamshed has been banned for a year for failing to co-operate with the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) regarding an investigation into corruption, the governing body said yesterday.
Dear Editor, Under the leadership of two distinguished academics, St Hilaire and Beckles,West Indian cricket administrators concluded that the problem with our cricketers was their lack of education.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore touted his ties to President Donald Trump yesterday in the final stretch of an election campaign in Alabama in which Moore has battled accusations of sexual misconduct toward teenagers.
PERTH, (Reuters) – A ground rich with cricketing history but wanting of modern comforts will take its final Ashes bow when Australia host England in the third test at the WACA on Thursday.
Dear Editor, This letter serves to voice my agreement with Chris Ram.
The Guyana Human Rights association (GHRA) is strongly recommending that the Parliamentary Office suspend the current process of re-populating the ‘rights’ Commissions until an impartial review of their performance over the past seven years has been done.
At a time when the United States should be going out of its way to stop a dangerous regression toward dictatorships in Latin America, the Trump administration — which to its credit has denounced the power grabs by the leftist leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua — should be equally critical of the slide into authoritarian rule by the conservative president of Honduras.
(The Sports Xchange) – Victor Oladipo scored a career-high 47 points to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 126-116 overtime victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Three women who have accused U.S. President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct called on Monday for a congressional investigation into his behaviour amid a wave of similar accusations against prominent men in Hollywood, the media and politics.
BOA VISTA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Last August, Victor Rivera, a 36-year-old unemployed baker, left his hometown in northern Venezuela and made the two-day journey by road to the remote Amazonian city of Boa Vista, Brazil.
Pandemonium broke out in the Committee of Supply this afternoon when PPP/C MP Juan Edghill was ordered out of Parliament Chambers by Chairman Dr.
Dear Editor, It was a brilliant morning. Motoring into La Bonne Intention Estate on this November day, the last, I could not help observing the designs of the overhead clouds, vividly white, clear, the glistening edges reflecting the sun’s rays which reached out, as if to say ‘have a good day’!
These past three weeks have witnessed the opening of two of the largest supermarkets ever to be launched locally, and there is a sense in which the officially acknowledged slowdown in the economy notwithstanding, the two multi-million dollar investments point to evidence of an encouraging measure of local investor confidence, never mind the apprehension reflected in the post-budget responses by the country’s major business support organizations.