Daily Archive: Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Deputy Commander of ‘C’ Division, Superintendent Walter Stanton today helped a 71-year-old man to recover his pension which had been snatched from him by two men.

The Founder of the Faith Deliverance Ministries,  Pastor Andrew Hannibale, stood before Justice Sandil Kissoon today indicted for the rape of a child under sixteen years old.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “No, I am not a lesbian.” That was the firm response of president-elect Paula-Mae Weekes yesterday as she sought to put to rest questions, raised on social media, about her sexual orientation in light of the fact that she has never been married or had any children.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge says the government is diligently working to prepare its case on the Venezuela border controversy for the World Court secure in the knowledge that Guyana’s western neighbour will have to comply with the ruling of the international legal body.

Police have arrested two men in connection with the shooting to death of money changer Shawn Nurse and robbery has been ruled out as the motive for the attack.

PARIS (Reuters) – French oil and energy group Total has bought stakes in some offshore Guyana oil production blocks, boosting its presence in the potentially lucrative Guyana basin.

Kyle Goddette, who is accused of setting his ex-girlfriend and her current partner on fire during the wee hours of Saturday morning, was yesterday handed over to the police by his parents.

A minibus driver was yesterday granted bail after he denied causing the death of a passenger, who succumbed after an accident last month at the junction of Sheriff Street and the Rupert Craig Highway.

(Trinidad Express) A 27 year old man of Nelson Street, Port of Spain, has been charged with the murder of Luke Adams, at Duke Street, Port of Spain around midday on January 18.

(Barbados Nation) A Guyanese man has been remanded to prison after appearing in court charged in connection with the discovery of  Bds$840 000 dollars in cocaine.

Two shutdowns of the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) were experienced by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) in two days.

Neville France, 43, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years behind bars for the 2013 unlawful killing of his younger brother, whom he stabbed to the back during a scuffle.

A 17-year-old was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with stealing his father’s gun.

Keemo Paul (5-76) and skipper Leon Johnson (99) produced herculean efforts to see Guyana Jaguars scampering to a thrilling 16-run win over the Leeward Islands Hurricanes despite a blistering 100 from Rahkeem Cornwall in their third match of Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Super50 tournament at the Coolidge Cricket Ground, Antigua Sunday night.

The University of Guyana’s Student Society (UGSS) has organised a Town Hall-style meeting for today to discuss the recently announced new administrative fees, which the university maintains were not unilaterally implemented.

The Guyana National Stadium at Providence will be the beneficiary of repair works to the tune of millions and already there are signs that the work is panning out.

In keeping with the recommendations made by British security adviser Lt Col (rtd) Russell Combe, 10 prison officials and two policemen are undergoing training to identify and handle vulnerable prisoners, particularly those who are mentally unstable.

The Rupununi Magisterial District Court Office and Courts at Annai, Aishalton and Karasabai were on Friday opened and according to President David Granger residents of the region will now have equal access to justice.

United States of America-based Track and Field standout from Essex County College (ECC), Andrea Foster was on Sunday honoured as the institution’s “Woman of the Year” by the New Jersey Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.

Dear Editor, Dr. Clive Thomas in his Column “Cost Recovery and the Fiscal Terms of Guyana’s Production Sharing Agreement” in the Sunday Stabroek of February 4 stated that “judging from the public debate, so far, the most contentions public issue has been the level at which recovery cost is to be calculated and administered”.

Bjorn Williams and Runita White took the marquee titles at the Novices Powerlifting Champion-ships, but many of the guest lifters recorded several record breaking feats at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Sunday.

Accounting and professional services firm, Ram and McRae will be launching a publication titled ‘2018 Guide to Petroleum Operations in Guyana’ tomorrow.

Dear Editor, Several events over the last year got me thinking in a deeper way about Georgetown’s green spaces, especially its trees.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Inter-national Organization for Migration (IOM) yesterday hosted a national consultative meeting on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

All roads will lead to the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue tonight when the inaugural Magnum Mash Futsal championships resume with nine  group matches.

Dear Editor The Right Start Foundation has taken notice of the recent press statement issued by the Linden Town Week secretariat with specific reference to the signed agreement between the said organization and the Linden Town Week Committee for the ‘All black concept party 2018’.

Dear Editor, Reference is made to your editorial ‘The Lindo Creek probe’ (SN, Feb 5) and former President Sam Hinds’ missive captioned ‘The terminology for CoIs is important’ (SN, Feb 2).

Steve Armstrong, an excavator operator who police say was caught with a loaded pistol after they intercepted a bus in which he was travelling, was yesterday remanded to prison by a city court on two charges.

Uitvlugt was crowned the Hamilton Green 83rd Birth Anniversary 9-a-side Inter-Ward Football Champion Sunday after defeating Crane on penalty kicks at the Den Amstel Community Centre ground.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The Euro-pean Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told Britain yesterday that the time had come for it to make a choice on what sort of relationship it wanted with the bloc after Brexit.

By Noelle Smith Fresh from playing unbeaten and winning the Guyana Chess Federation Senior Qualifying championships Sunday at the National Aquatic Centre, Anthony Drayton, winner of last year’s Caribbean Chess Cup in Barbados, is eyeing his first national senior men’s chess championship.

The nine persons who were injured on Saturday following a head-on collision between two vehicles along the Parfaite Harmonie access road, at West Bank Demerara, are recovering but remain hospitalised.

Dear Editor, At the last statutory meeting of the Region Six Regional Democratic Council we saw two motions tabled and passed for implementation by the Regional Executive Officer.

MALE/COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – Maldives President Abdulla Yameen yesterday declared a state of emergency, ordered security forces into the supreme court and arrested a former president, in moves the opposition called a “purge” in the Indian Ocean island nation.

Albert DeFreitas, who was released on bail in two robbery cases late last year, was yesterday charged with stealing over $500,000 in goods from a woman’s car.

Dear Editor, I feel very hurt, sad and even depressed, as I consider the economic and social conditions which Venezuela, a once great nation, has found itself in.

The Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) Sunday marched to a massive 115-run win over Third Class at their home ground, Woolford Avenue.

Dear Editor, President Granger seems to be bent on resurrecting many of the programmes introduced by the former President Forbes Burnham.

Muslim Youth Organization (MYO), Sunday pulled off a stunning one-wicket win over Everest in the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA)/New Building Society (NBS) second-division tournament.

A regional engineer is currently hospitalised after he was chopped several times on Saturday evening during a misunderstanding with a contractor at Enterprise Village, East Coast Demerara.

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks plunged in highly volatile trading yesterday, with both the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials indices slumping more than 4.0 percent, as the Dow notched its biggest intraday decline in history with a nearly 1,600-point drop and Wall Street erased its gains for the year.

Dear Editor, They even rob the blind around here these days. 

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – A Sunil Narine hat-trick and a typically exhilarating Evin Lewis hundred were all Trinidad and Tobago Red Force needed to brush aside the luckless Windward Islands Volcanoes by four wickets and post their third straight win of the Regional Super50.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Former TV anchor and evangelical singer Fabricio Alvarado Munoz will face a centre-left fiction writer in Costa Rica’s presidential election runoff, definitively ending decades of a two-party system in the peaceful Central American nation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted unanimously yesterday to approve the release of a classified document that Democrats say will rebut a contentious Republican memo alleging FBI bias against President Donald Trump.

Statements were last Friday served to the Mocha businessman who was charged last year with causing the death of a woman, whom he struck along the Herstelling Public Road.

A Colombian national was yesterday fined and ordered deported by a city court after she admitted to entering Guyana illegally.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s support for Venezuela has benefited ordinary people and been broadly welcomed, the foreign ministry said yesterday after the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s central bank yesterday announced a devaluation of more than 99 percent of its official exchange rate with the launch of a new foreign exchange platform, a move critics quickly said would not create a functioning currency market.

Dear Editor, During my visit to Charity, I visited the wharf.

The Physical Display component of the Children’s Mashramani competition kicked off yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with performances from several schools.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell has hailed the appointment of Rawl Lewis as the new manager of the West Indies senior team.

The City of Philadelphia will host a victory parade Thursday for the Eagles, who defeated the New England Patriots 41-33 on Sunday night to capture the franchise’s first Super Bowl championship.

The gloves are off. After decades in which the United States largely looked the other way, the Trump administration has decided to confront China over its growing influence in Latin America.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 22-year-old bank employee has been charged with syphoning monies from customers’ accounts totalling just over $.3 million.

Dear Editor, Guyana’s oldest legal luminary died a few days ago at his adopted home in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Reuters) – Two Kenyan television channels shut down by the government over their coverage of the political opposition resumed partial broadcasting yesterday, although a third channel remained off the air.

Permission for the construction of this concrete structure that would house a stall in the Stabroek Market Bazaar was granted by the Town Clerk Royston King through the Clerk of Markets.

Hardly a day passes without some kind of public reportage on the subject of oil.