Daily Archive: Tuesday, December 19, 2017

CARICOM today denounced a European Union decision to declare Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, St Lucia and Grenada as having harmful preferential tax regimes.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kizzy Bernard, the lone woman accused in the $5.5 million robbery at the Piarco International Airport, was yesterday denied bail by an Arima magistrate.

Finance Minister Winston Jordan says that the loss of a US$5m investment to Trinidad because the prospective Guyanese investor was given a runaround here must not be allowed to happen again.

A Lethem contractor yesterday appeared in a Georgetown magistrate’s court charged with conspiracy to enable the landing of an illegal aircraft in the Rupununi.

A South Ruimveldt labourer yesterday succumbed to injuries he sustained after being involved in an accident on Vlissengen Road.

A Diamond, East Bank Demerara woman was left traumatized on Sunday night after she was confronted by a gunman who relieved her of her motor vehicle with her sleeping niece inside.

A Stanleytown contractor/foreman died on Sunday during the construction of a bridge in the Esplanade Recreational Park, after a piece of wood loosened and struck him in his head.

  An American national was yesterday robbed at gunpoint on Thomas Street just around noon yesterday of her cellular phones and cash.

The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has obtained an order from Acting Chief Justice Roxane George, requiring Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan, to show why her decision, allowing the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) to receive and inspect records of the accounts of the Guyana World Cup Inc; should not be quashed.

Visitors to the Giftland Mall will be expected to pay a $3,000 “redeemable concession fee” upon entry effective this weekend as part of attempts to limit the number of “holiday limers” at the shopping complex.

After four days of races which attracted in excess of 300 athletes, the curtain for the seventh edition King Medas event came down on Sunday at the Buxton Community Centre Ground with the 5K Classic.

President David Granger yesterday urged the first batch of graduates from the Bertram Collins College of the Public Service to be the change that is needed to transform the sector into one which caters for the needs of the citizenry.

Mackenzie High secured the Boys title, while President’s College clinched the Girls championship, when the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG), ‘Titan Bowl’ concluded on Sunday.

Civil society representatives from the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of the Guyana Extractive Industries Trans-parency Initiative (GY-EITI) have restated their commitment to transparency and accountability and called the government out on their blunder over the secret signing bonus from ExxonMobil.

WHANGAREI, New Zealand,  CMC – Head coach Stuart Law admitted yesterday the preceding Test series against New Zealand had been a chastening experience but said West Indies would be looking to make up for that disappointment in the three-match one-day series starting tomorrow.

One hundred and twenty inmates housed at the Mazaruni Prison (Cuyuni/ Mazaruni)  were yesterday morning recognized after successfully completing a three-month training course in various programmes aimed at preparing them for the world of work.

Botafogo crushed High Stars 4-1, while Netrockers and Amelia’s Ward Panthers battled to a 2-2 draw, when the 5th Annual Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA)/GT Beer Football Championship, continued on Sunday.

Dear Editor, Workers/citizens have to hold the politicians accountable for lying to them, taking them for granted, and treating their business with contempt. 

Twenty-one-year-old Lorenzo Forde walked out of the High Court in Georgetown a free man yesterday afternoon, after a jury acquitted him of the 2013 murder of Pegasus Hotel taxi driver, Rudranauth Jeeboo.

Dear Editor, Mr Justice Patterson’s statements and those of the Attorney General, Mr Basil Williams, in today’s Stabroek News evoke even greater controversy.

Beacons FC and Monedderlust stormed their way into the semifinal round of the GT Beer Berbice 8-aside Football Championship, crushing Golden Stars and Arsenal respectively, on Sunday.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – England will have to make some tough decisions about the futures of some of their most decorated senior players after they were ruthlessly exposed by Australia in a 15-day Ashes capitulation.

In an attempt to better fulfil its mandate and tackle deficiencies highlighted in a recently published Forensic Audit, the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) has completed a Financial Accountability Policy and implemented a Staff Confidentiality Agreement.

Dear Editor, I refer to Bishop Juan Edghill’s letter to the editor published on Dec 14th in the Stabroek News.

LONDON, , CMC – West Indies can close the gap on eighth-ranked Sri Lanka, when they face New Zealand in a three-match One-Day International series bowling off in Whangarei on Wednesday.

City Hall has extended its amnesty to December 31, and is working with rates and tax payers to develop payment plans to assist with paying off their debt.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was elected leader of the African National Congress yesterday in a close-run vote that will set the direction for the country and the scandal-plagued party that has ruled since the end of apartheid.

Dear Editor, I must profusely thank well-known attorney-at-law Mr Mursalene Bacchus for his kind and compassionate gesture to offer his services pro bono in an ongoing uphill battle to free a cow calf improperly and illegally impounded at the No 51 Police Station.

(Reuters) – Ferrari could lead other Formula One teams into an alternative championship if the sport becomes too much like the U.S.-based

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has said that his government received no money from Canadian oil company, CGX Energy  to assist in the maritime boundary dispute between Guyana and Suriname but rather the company had paid lawyers and lobbyists.

Dear Editor, It has been reported that Leader of the Opposition PPP/C Bharrat Jagdeo has promised retrenched sugar workers a monthly stipend if re-elected in the 2020 General Election (‘If re-elected PPP/C Gov’t will give retrenched sugar workers monthly sum until they find jobs’, Sunday Stabroek, December 17).

KAMPALA,  (Reuters) – A move to change Uganda’s constitution to allow President Yoweri Museveni to rule beyond the age of 75 provoked rowdy scenes in parliament yestreday in which six legislators were ejected from the chamber.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Entertainer Ninja Man and his co-convicts have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 murder of a Kingston man.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – An activist investor in Chevron Corp said yesterday it filed a shareholder resolution that would require the oil producer to report on the feasibility of ending operations in Myanmar, where a crackdown on minority Rohingya Muslims has been decried by the United States as “ethnic cleansing.”

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your editorial ‘Unparliamentary events’ (Dec 17).

The Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved a grant of US$218,020 ($44.6m) to Guyana to build capacity in key areas of local government.

(Reuters) – LeBron James used a visit to Washington today to express his continued displeasure at Donald Trump, without once mentioning the United States president by name.

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – The West Indies trio of Kieron Pollard, Nicholas Pooran and Rayad Emrit had precious little to do as their Kerala Kings trounced Punjabi Legends by eight wickets, to win the inaugural T10 League on Sunday.

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is working to put mechanisms in place to refund persons who had booked flights with Dynamic Airways ahead of them halting their operations in Guyana two months ago.

DUPONT, Wash.,  (Reuters) – An Amtrak train derailed yesterday during its inaugural run on a faster route from Seattle to Portland, Oregon, sending passenger cars tumbling from a bridge onto a major highway, killing at least three people and injuring about 100 others.

Dear Editor, I find it prejudicial and judgemental to attach a label to those persons who speak up when they feel that a particular ethnic or social group is being treated unfairly.

Dear Editor, The citizens of Guyana have endured long a bitter undemocratic rule (1968-1992) under the People’s National Congress.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) said late on Sunday that Honduras should hold new presidential elections, after the electoral tribunal declared conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the bitterly contested Nov.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – Australia thrashed England by an innings and 41 runs in the third test in Perth yesterday to reclaim the Ashes with two matches to spare and condemn Joe Root’s team to a period of gloomy introspection.

Bandits during the wee hours of Monday robbed a Lamaha Park home which was occupied by three women.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration has publicly blamed North Korea for unleashing the so-called WannaCry cyber attack that crippled hospitals, banks and other companies across the globe earlier this year.

Dear Editor, Since May 21, 2015 when President David Granger with Comrades Joe Harmon and Raphael Trotman took a helicopter ride to the ExxonMobil oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean (Stabroek Block) to be embraced, Rastafari in Guyana have been monitoring the APNU+AFC government, winner of the election on May 16, 2015, on all aspects (or non-aspects) of oil and gas production and administration in Guyana by ExxonMobil.

(Trinidad Express) Two men are due to appear before a Rio Claro Magis-trate yesterday charged in connection with the charred remains of a missing man found along Pato Trace, Biche, on December 8.

A Port Mourant, Corentyne man is now in the Port Mourant Hospital after he sustained an incised wound in his face during an altercation on Sunday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. District Court judge ruled yesterday that President Donald Trump’s administration must allow access to abortion for two pregnant teenagers who are in the country illegally, escalating a high-profile legal fight.

(Reuters) – Former England spinner Graeme Swann was critical of England’s senior players who have done “next to nothing” as Australia regained the Ashes in Perth yesterday.

The decrepit parts of the St. Rose’s High School are scheduled for demolition sometime this week in order to facilitate the construction of a new building.

Charged in September with escaping lawful custody while under investigation for rape and murder, a man yesterday had the charge against him dismissed after the magistrate upheld a no-case submission.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A lawyer nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a federal judge withdrew from consideration yesterday after video of his Senate confirmation hearing showing him unable to provide answers to rudimentary legal questions went viral last week.

Dear Editor, The Mayor and City Council has designated special areas for vendors during this festive season.

(Trinidad Express) A Manzanilla man is expected to appear before a Sangre Grande Magistrate in connection with the December 9 shooting death of his 44-year-old sister-in-law and the wounding of her 18-year-old daughter and two others, at a bar in Manzanilla.

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of Sunday’s NBA games. Cavaliers 106, Wizards 99 LeBron James registered his fourth triple-double in five games with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 15 assists as the streaking Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Washington Wizards 106-99 on Sunday night.

Acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine has issued a somewhat convoluted media release making reference to, among other things, the peculiarity of two plainclothes policemen, in turn, surreptitiously occupying positions at the media desk in the Parliament during a sitting of the National Assembly.

I thought that Venezuela’s economic crisis was so acute — with a 12 percent economic contraction in 2017, a 700 percent inflation rate and widespread shortages of food and medicines — that it could hardly get worse.