Articles published on Wednesday, April 4, 2018
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – CARICOM is pressing ahead with plans to ensure the restructuring of the governance of West Indies cricket, undeterred by the International Cricket Council’s request to have Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron present at any meeting between the two bodies.
APNU and the AFC have decided that they are going into the local government elections as a coalition says AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – China is developing a 750-acre industrial park in Bangladesh which will largely be used by Chinese manufacturing firms, a Chinese official said on Wednesday, part of its push to expand links with South Asia and beyond.
With seven major discoveries since 2015 and boasting deep-water seismic technologies ahead of their competitors, ExxonMobil has announced that it has identified new oil leads here and will continue to pursue them throughout this year.
After admitting to killing his father-in-law, whom he bludgeoned to the head with an axe, Veeram Dias was yesterday sentenced to spend the next 14 years behind bars by Justice Sandil Kissoon.
The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) does not expect that its members will have to wait much longer for feedback on the work of the high-level task force set up to address its multi-year proposal to government on wages and conditions.
A 25-year-old miner died on Sunday afternoon after the pit he was working in caved in at Chinese Creek Backdam, Mazaruni River.
A mason, who was charged yesterday alongside the son of accused cocaine trafficker Andre ‘Zipper’ Gomes and another man, has been sentenced to four years in jail and fined over $6 million after he admitted to trafficking almost five pounds of cocaine.
Doodnauth Danasri, the La Penitence market vendor who was shot while trying to defend his wife from robbers on Monday, has been discharged from the hospital.
The trial of Bryan Leitch for the murder of hotelier Joseph Jagdeo will commence at 9 this morning before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.
A seven-year-old child died yesterday morning after he allegedly ran into the path of a motor vehicle driven by an under-the-influence businessman along the Aurora Public Road, Essequibo Coast.
A man was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he was found guilty of ganja trafficking.
The Santa Rosa Roman Catholic Church marked its 200th anniversary on Sunday and Bishop of the Diocese of Georgetown Francis Alleyne has said the history of Roman Catholicism in Guyana is linked to the establishment of the church.
TURIN, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo scored with a bicycle kick which was outrageous even by his standards to lead Real Madrid to an emphatic 3-0 win away to Juventus in their Champions League quarter-final, first leg yesterday.
TOTALTEC Oilfield Services Limited (TOTALTEC) successfully completed its second equity finance raising from a large international investor, price undisclosed, on the 28th February.
Guyana and West Indies left arm orthodox spinner Veerasammy Permaul is due to return home today with the rest of the West Indies team following their 0-3 T20 series loss to Pakistan in the series which ended yesterday in Karachi.
Transport Sports Club (TSC) crushed the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) by 10 wickets while the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) defeated Bel Air Rubis by 59 runs in the latest round of the Georgetown Cricket Association NY/Tri State U19 tournament.
Two men were yesterday released on $30,000 bail after they denied breaking and entering a Port Kaituma hotel room and stealing items valued over $100,000.
CARICOM National Drug Observatories representatives will benefit from a regional seminar to be held today and tomorrow in Georgetown.
Headquarters snuck past C division by 19 runs as the race to the final of the Police Commissioner’s T20 Cup competition continued yesterday at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary.
The highly-anticipated semifinals of the Georgetown Cricket Association/Toucan Distributors Under-15 tournament will take place today.
Comparing a prospecting contract to that of a production one is absurd, former attorney general Anil Nandlall says in response to the government’s inclusion of the requirement for seven days’ notice to the contractor if it wants to visit the offshore oil operations of ExxonMobil.
Dear Editor, Last Wednesday, March 24, I was part of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee for the Security Sector that inspected police stations at Moruka, Matthews Ridge, Port Kaituma and Mabaruma in Region One.
Dear Editor, Whatever we rub on our skin enters the body and the bloodstream and eventually must have a discourse with our liver, so the biologists imply.
Commissioners of the National Commission for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCPC-NCD) yesterday conducted outreaches at post offices in Campbellville, Bourda, at the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) head office and the Grove facility on the East Bank of Demerara.
Guyana’s Narayan Ramdhani will oppose Vernon Sameed of St. Helena in the first round of the men’s singles badminton event at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Guyana remained unbeaten and on course for the 2018 Regional Under-15 title while reigning champions Barbados continued their comeback, in the fourth round of matches here Monday.
Dear Editor, President David Granger over the Easter weekend visited Region Six to distribute kites in two towns, Rose Hall and Corriverton, but surprisingly he decided to leave his fleet of vehicles behind to visit by helicopter.
Dear Editor, There was absolutely nothing wrong, disappointing or vulgar with the distribution of either bird kites or kites made of greaseproof paper as contended by a columnist in KN.
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has appointed Dr. Ivan Joseph to serve as head coach of the senior women’s team for one year.
The Georgetown Public Hospital yesterday received bids for the provision of dietary supplies.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Vernon Philander grabbed six wickets in a devastating spell of seam bowling as South Africa crushed Australia by a record 492 runs to clinch the four-match series 3-1 day, leaving the tourists with much soul-searching to do.
Dear Editor, I read with both amusement and varying degrees of contempt a response to a letter written by former President, Donald Ramotar, published under the caption, ‘Chronicle halt on Hinds and Lewis’ columns was inevitable’.
Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin visited the Lethem Industrial Estate site while he was in the border town over the weekend, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday raised the stakes in a growing trade showdown with China, targeting 25 percent tariffs on some 1,300 industrial technology, transport and medical products to try to force changes in Beijing’s intellectual property practices.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – A U.S. jury yesterday found former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and his defence minister responsible for civilian deaths during 2003 street protests in Bolivia, awarding $10 million in compensatory damages to victims’ families.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s strategy for the U.S.-Mexico border includes mobilizing the National Guard, the White House said on Tuesday, after Trump had earlier spoken publicly to reporters about “guarding our border with the military” to stop illegal immigrants.
Dear Editor, I am deeply upset and saddened by the news that a Guyanese woman, a mother of six, lost her life tragically during a home delivery of her baby in the North West District of Yarakita.
It may have rained on their Easter Monday parade so these kite flyers got in some extra time yesterday near the seawall bandstand.
SOL Guyana Inc on March 27th launched Shell’s new motor oil formulation – the fully synthetic Helix Ultra range of premium lubricants manufactured from natural gas with patented Shell PurePlus Technology.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The world’s richest cricket board is poised to get even wealthier after media rights to Indian cricket for the next five years brought spirited bidding yesterday.
Dear Editor, I found yet another positive story to write about Guyana.
SAN BRUNO, Calif., (Reuters) – A woman opened fire with a handgun at YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, wounding three people before shooting herself dead as employees of the Silicon Valley tech company fled into the surrounding streets, authorities said.
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, (Reuters) – Tail-ender Ish Sodhi hit a gutsy half-century as New Zealand fought a defiant rearguard action on a tense final day to hold on for a draw in the second test yesterday and secure a first series win over England since 1999.
There have been positive efforts on the Government’s part to push tourism in Guyana, says Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Roraima Captain Gerry Gouveia.
(Reuters) As “Padmaavat” completes 50 days in theatres, the studio that produced the controversial Bollywood film called for an environment where filmmakers are free to tell stories based on Indian history and mythology.
(Trinidad Express) A second man has been charged with the March 15 murder of Defence Force soldier, Ken Palmer.
One day after the curtains came down on this year’s CARIFTA Games which was staged in the Bahamas during the Easter Weekend, gold, silver and bronze medalist at the meet, Chantoba Bright wrote down the number 364.
RUBIS Guyana Inc and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) have highlighted the importance of corporate companies supporting the Biennial Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) Fair programme being undertaken by the Ministry of Education.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that 17 people had been detained for an attack on a rival presidential candidate’s campaign, but the leftist leader rejected accusations that pro-government thugs were to blame for the unrest ahead of the May vote.
(Trinidad Express) A seventy-year-old man appeared before the court charged with the sexually assault of a 12-year old girl.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – With her arms crossed and poised for action, “Wonder Woman” television actress Lynda Carter was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday as her most famous superhero character enjoys a big-screen revival.
Dear Editor, If one reflects on the statement from the then Leader of the then Opposition, Mr Robert Corbin, in 2004, it clearly exposed the inconsistency in principles in the PNC leadership.
Just when cricket fans around the world had had enough of the ‘ball tampering’ incident in the Third Test between Australia and South Africa, they are slowly coming to the conclusion that not everyone is prepared to accept, and/or play to, the same rules of conduct.
HARRISBURG, Pa., (Reuters) – Defense lawyers at Bill Cosby’s retrial on sexual assault charges can call a witness they say will undermine his accuser’s credibility, a Pennsylvania judge said yesterday, reversing his ruling that barred the same witness from the first trial of the comedian once known as “America’s Dad.”
The Human Rights and Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana celebrated International Women’s Day with a March and Awards Presentation on March 31, 2018.
Dear Editor, No one can predict the future, but I am not overly perturbed about the potential safety issues in the visit to Pakistan by our cricketers.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge if a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a harmful rise in global temperatures.
In recent weeks, criticisms of the coalition government’s internal processes have only been surpassed by criticisms of its handling of its relationship with ExxonMobil.
KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – West Indies suffered a humbling whitewash on the two-year anniversary of their Twenty20 World Cup triumph, when they slipped to an eight-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the final T20 International of the three-match series here yesterday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s new foreign minister said yesterday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was still not welcome to attend a regional summit in Lima next week, upholding a decision by Peru’s disgraced former president.
