Daily Archive: Saturday, April 14, 2018

GOLD COAST, Australia, CMC – St Lucia’s Levern Spencer and Troy Doris of Guyana both won gold on the penultimate day of the Commonwealth Games here Saturday.

Last Friday night Floodlights defeated Savage Masters in a friendly T20 softball game in honor of the 64th birth anniversary of popular businessman Ramesh Sunich of Trophy Stall, Bourda Market.

National javelin record holder Leslain Baird threw close to his best yesterday at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Australia but could not clinch a finals berth in the field event.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Leading Caribbean academic, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has strongly endorsed CARICOM’s intervention in the running of West Indies cricket, warning the governance of the game in the region had reached a “perilous state.”

Thanks to donations from Grace Kennedy Guyana Limited, a dream will finally be realized for differently abled cyclist, Walter Grant-Stuart who has departed Guyana to participate in the UCI C1 Para-cycling event in Canada later this month.

  Guyana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for last year was 2.1%, falling short of government’s projection of 2.9%, and the 2016 figure of 3.3%, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said yesterday.

Safraz Esau scored an unbeaten century to help Independence `A’ escape with a two-wicket win over McGill Sports club in the latest match of the West Demerara Cricket Association limited overs competition at Joe Vieira Park.

Defending champion Sparta Boss will oppose Bent Street today in the final of the Petra Organization/Corona Futsal Championship at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Guyana has earned US$36,169 in interest from the Bank of Guyana (BoG) on the US$18 million signature bonus lodged there in 2016 from the ExxonMobil Production Sharing Agreement (PSA).

Powerful winds lashed Lima, Essequibo Coast, yesterday morning, ripping the roof off of a house, and leaving two persons nursing injuries and the area without power.

President Guards (PG) trounced ‘G’ Division by 10 wickets while Headquarters (HQ) overcame ‘F’ Division in the semifinals of the Police Commissioner’s T20 Cup at Police Ground, Eve Leary on Thursday to book their finals showdown today.

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman yesterday announced that an analysis of the mercury emissions at the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) laboratory on Brickdam shows that levels were within “normal” limits but he said he proposes to have an expert review of the operations, which could be relocated.

GOLD COAST, Australia, CMC – Jamaican Fedrick Dacres broke a 16-year-old record while Danniel Thomas-Dodd claimed her first global title, grabbing the headlines as the 21st Commonwealth Games moved into the home stretch here yesterday.

The Supplies Chain Management Complex of the Ministry of Health (MoPH), located at Diamond on the East Cost of Demerara, is well stocked with three months’ worth of vital drugs and supplies for the regional health facilities.

Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman says that a South African company will be visiting next week to conduct a feasibility study on a gold refinery and the Government of Guyana is “strongly” considering the possibility.

Chase Academy, Marian Academy and St. Joseph High recorded wins in the U16 Division of the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Regional Conference yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, Homestretch Avenue.

GOLD COAST, Australia,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s Caster Semenya completed a middle distance double in emphatic style and Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei followed with a distance double as Commonwealth Games records tumbled on the penultimate day of track and field yesterday.

Following an allegation against a sponsor, Linden Mayor Waneka Arrindell yesterday announced that the Miss Linden Pageant, a major feature of the Linden Town Day celebrations, has been called off.

The Guyana Relief Council (GRC) has criticised Banks DIH over the recent statements made by Mar-keting Manager George McDonald about the beverage giant’s interest in acquiring the land being occupied by the charity near Thirst Park.

GOLD COAST, Australia, CMC – Newly-crowned Commonwealth 400 metres hurdles men’s champion, Kyron McMaster, says the tragic experience of British Virgin Islands’ devastation by Hurricane Irma, had served as a huge motivation to succeed.

(Reuters) Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry expects to make his return sometime during the second round of the playoffs, assuming the Golden State Warriors get that far, according to a report by Yahoo Sports yesterday.

The Department of Youth is once again inviting young people between 14 and 35 years to apply for funding to develop solutions to issues in their communities using Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architecture, Arts, Mathematics and Spirituality (STEAMS) under its $70 million seed capital Youth Innovation Project of Guyana 2018.

(Reuters) The Oklahoma City Thunder suspended television play-by-play announcer Brian Davis for Game 1 of the first round of the playoffs for an on-air comment he made during the team’s regular-season finale on Wednesday.

Scotiabank yesterday launched its fifth annual Vision Achiever Programme Business Plan Competition, which will see a total of $1.5 million going to the winning entrants.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S., British and French forces pounded Syria with air strikes early today  in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Dear Editor, I refer to Mr Vincent Alexander’s letter of Thursday, April 11, correcting an editorial of the Stabroek News about Forbes Burnham’s alleged relationship with the British Guiana Labour Party (BGLP) in 1949-1950.

(Reuters) Washington Wizards guard Jodie Meeks was suspended 25 games for violating the league’s anti-drug programme, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported yesterday.

Dear Editor, The Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan is reported to be alarmed at the young age of ‘drug users’ while addressing a youth conference at Mahaicony recently, supported by the result of recent surveys done.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – A lawmaker from India’s ruling party was arrested yesterday in connection with the rape of a teenager, police said, after days of protests by activists accusing authorities of failing to investigate the case and other attacks.

The Miss World Guyana (MWG) Organisation yesterday revealed the 15 semi-finalists vying for the title of Miss World Guyana 2018, and shared plans for more public involvement in the execution of the pageant.

The judiciary yesterday morning launched a two-day training exercise aimed at enhancing its capabilities in the adjudication of sexual offence cases and interaction with vulnerable persons in such matters.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Massachusetts’ top court yesterday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s bid to block the state’s attorney general from obtaining records to investigate whether the company for decades concealed its knowledge of the role fossil fuels play in climate change.

The Cheddi Jagan International Airport Corporation (CJIAC) recorded the highest ever passenger movement through the airport in the first quarter of 2018.

(Reuters) A day before his team plays its first playoff game in six years, Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown said star big man Joel Embiid won’t be on the court for Game 1.

Twenty-five-year-old Berbician stunner Faydeha Cathylyna King won the Miss Black San International title on April 1, when she competed against eight other young women in the Sandy Point Town of St Kitts, also winning three of the four categories.

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LIMA, (Reuters) – Latin American leaders met in Peru yesterday at a regional summit that was overshadowed by Washington’s decision to order military strikes on Syria, prompting U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi says the State will appeal Judge Devindra Rampersad’s ruling on Sections 13 and 16 of the Sexual Offences Act as unconstitutional as applied to adult consensual acts “because the law ought to be settled”.

Two of the six suspects apprehended by the police at a roadblock along Grove Pubic Road on Tuesday, shortly after an attempted break-in at Supply, East Bank Demerara, have been positively identified as the perpetrators who carried out several recent armed robberies.

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SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Cricket Australia has signed a new six-year broadcast agreement worth A$1.2 billion ($935 million), the board said yesterday, allaying fears of a financial blow in the wake of last month’s ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center said new ways of forecasting extreme weather events, including identifying storms before they fully develop, mark a “huge leap forward in the science of hurricanes”.

Dear Editor, It was Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America (USA), who once famously remarked, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”

Dear Editor, Below are the arguments in an unfinished response to Mr Rohit Kanhai’s letter on me (‘Kissoon’s agenda was not simply about a stroll down memory lane’  SN, April 13).

Three more suspects were on Thursday arrested by the police in connection with the murder of Dominican Republic national Pedro Pablo Rosario, who was shot and killed last Friday when armed bandits invaded a mining camp at Black Water Backdam, Cuyuni River.

(Reuters) – England’s limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan has said that test cricket and the County Championship hold little significance to young players who are increasingly leaning towards the shorter Twenty20 format.

Maybe it is the visuals—everyone I grew up with now has a baby—or the cheeky reminder by some that my biological clock is ticking, but now and more than ever, I find myself thinking of being a mother and the changes that will bring.

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court disqualified deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office for life yesterday amid an ongoing corruption trial and ahead of general elections due this year.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has praised newly-crowned Commonwealth Games 200 metres champion, Jereem Richards, for his “tenacity and sportsmanship” following his success at the ongoing games in Australia.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two London gang members who used a young woman to carry and sell drugs have been jailed for human trafficking in a landmark legal case, prosecutors said on Friday.

Dear Editor, I am grateful to Stabroek News for publishing my letter of April 11th, 2018 captioned ‘Roopnaraine will remain a member of the WPA for as long as he chooses to do so’ and for facilitating Frederick Kissoon’s response to it on Thursday, April 12th, 2018.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan prosecutors and the United Nations-backed Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) on Friday said they had suffered information leaks that thwarted three planned arrests in a corruption scandal investigation.

Patrice ‘Sonjah Royalty’ Gonsalves is one of the newest, conscious reggae singer/songwriters on the block.

Solitude Solitude is often necessary for our sanity. Man’s ongoing suffering often enters our circle of awareness and tries to hijack our emotional wellbeing.

The new romantic comedy “Love, Simon” is all about symmetry. This is a well-ordered world where everyone exists in a state that is not perfect, but rarely uncertain.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow recently closed an episode of her show with this thought: “When politics goes right in a well-run country, citizens do not have to think much about their government and about the responsibilities of citizenship.”

(Trinidad Express) Krystiana Sankar, the kidnapped stepdaughter of Minister Stuart Young, has been freed.

Three persons were rushed to the Diamond Hospital yesterday afternoon after a heavily-laden truck ran off the road at Long Creek, on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway.