Articles published on Wednesday, April 25, 2018
The community of Good Intent, West Bank Demerara, has been left in shock after a man allegedly strangled his wife before attempting to kill himself by slitting his throat and drinking poison.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon and Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi yesterday met with the United Nations Resident Coordinator Richard Blewitt and Protection Officer of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ruben Barbado, over last Saturday’s repatriation of 82 Venezuelans.
With the oil and gas sector set to bring in an estimated US$700 million in its first year of full operations, GRA Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia is convinced that once he is at the helm of the revenue agency there will be no successful tax evasion by ExxonMobil.
Trade unionist Micah Williams was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment after a jury unanimously found him guilty of raping an eight-year-old girl.
The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has been ordered to pay Essequibo rice miller Arnold Sankar the more than $99 million it owes for paddy it asked him to supply.
GRA has detained a fuel boat pending the payment of some $36M in taxes.
After having been given an extension of time to pay, Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) is likely to find itself on the hook for more than the $3.8 billion liability to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) that a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruling cleared the way for.
Government will today meet with workers and officials of Russian aluminum firm RUSAL, and German carrier, Oldendorff, at the company’s Kwakwani, Berbice location to discuss the local implications of United States sanctions against the company’s majority shareholder Oleg Deripaska.
Acknowledging that initial consultations might not have been as robust as they should have been, IDB Country Representative Sophie Makonnen is urging stakeholders in a hinterland agricultural project to take an active part in the process to find solutions and successfully implement the scheme.
Amid unrelenting concerns over health dangers from mercury, the Guyana Gold Board’s (GGB) laboratory at Upper Brickdam was closed yesterday and alternative arrangements are to be made for purchasing of the precious metal.
Rod Henson, Country Manager of ExxonMobil’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), says statistically speaking, it is unlikely that Guyana will experience a significant oil spill when production begins in 2020 at the offshore Liza well.
A fire ripped through a Crabwood Creek sawmill yesterday morning, leaving its owners counting millions in losses.
Guyana will not be participating in this year’s Miss Universe pageant because currently there is no licensee, according to Public Relations Officer of the organisation Jackie Shahinian.
Saying that the smuggling of contraband items into the prison facilities, including the maximum security facility at Mazaruni, has been a growing issue, acting Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels on Monday sternly warned that officers found colluding in such activity will face the law.
Although Captain Orwain Sandy, who is charged with the murder of his common-law wife Reona Payne, has been seen by a psychiatrist, police yesterday said that an evaluation report is still outstanding.
A 21-year-old Albouystown man was yesterday ordered to do community service after he admitted to assaulting a city constabulary officer and using indecent language.
With the national female soccer team known as the Lady Jaguars set to commence the CFU Women’s Challenge Series tomorrow against Grenada at the Ato Bolton Stadium, Trinidad and Tobago from 16:00hrs, head-coach Dr.
Two men are now both remanded prisoners after being separately charged with ganja trafficking on Monday.
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon on Monday announced that the Department of the Environment (DoE) is working on a proposal which includes a ban on single-use plastics in Guyana.
MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies Twenty20 star Kieron Pollard extended his poor form in the Indian Premier League as Mumbai Indians crashed to their fifth defeat of the new season with a a 31-run loss to Sunrisers Hyderabad in a low-scoring encounter here yesterday.
Bids were tendered yesterday for a new asphalt plant for the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies batsman Shai Hope believes the Caribbean side can defy the odds and win next year’s ICC World Cup in England.
Berbice trampled defending champions Demerara by 119 runs to book their spot in Saturday’s final of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Hand In Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Under-19 Inter-County 50 overs tournament at Lusignan Community Center Ground, East Coast Demerara yesterday.
The Kitty Roundabout is about a month away from completion, the Department of Public Information (DPI) says.
With several elimination berths still up for grabs, the final group action in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championships will commence tonight at the Silvercity Hard-Court.
Dear Editor, During his tenure, Harold B Davis, the first Executive Chairman of GuySuCo commissioned (in the 1980s) the coordination of a range of heritage projects for the sugar industry.
A solid batting effort from Marvin Prashad backed by a measly spell from Nigel Deodat helped orchestrate a 71-run win for the National U17’s over Essequibo in second round action of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Hand-In-Hand Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Inter-County U19 50 overs tournament at Everest, yesterday.
Dear Editor, Putting the proverbial cart before the horse seems to be a regular pastime of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) led by the brilliant Wayne Forde.
The police are currently compiling a file on the suspected arson that resulted in the gutting of the White Castle Fish Shop on John and Hadfield streets, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown.
Following reports of plagiarism being discovered in entries for The Guyana Annual, management of the magazine is assuring the public of the integrity of the winners.
A woman charged with swearing to false information was yesterday cleared after a city court found that there was insufficient evidence against her.
PARIS, (Reuters) – French police questioned billionaire Vincent Bollore yesterday over allegations his Groupe Bollore worked on the election campaigns of presidential candidates in two African countries in return for lucrative port contracts.
Dear Editor, The issue of corruption has now become a front burner issue, with charges of corruption coming from both sides of the political divide.
Charlestown Secondary School will have to wait another day to play Tucville Secondary in the final of the South Georgetown Zone of the 2017/2018 Guyana Cricket Board/ Demerara Mutual Life Assurance Society Limited/ National Sports Commission/ National Secondary School Cricket League.
Guyana Strategic Metals (GSM) Inc., is the latest company to contribute to the development of table tennis in Guyana.
Dear Editor, I recognize that my continuing efforts to have the Indian Arrival Day monument sited at Highbury where the first batch of Indian immigrants actually arrived instead of Palmyra which is apparently being pushed because of ‘convenience’ and/or ‘conspicuousness’ might now be seen as whipping a dead horse; but in all seriousness, I again beg the relevant authorities to please let good historical reason and common sense prevail.
Citizens desirous of commenting on the new metered parking by-laws will now have until May 8th to do so after the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) extended the time for public comment.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – The man accused of plowing a rental van into pedestrians on a crowded Toronto sidewalk, killing 10 people in Canada’s deadliest mass killing in decades, left a “cryptic message” on social media before his attack, police said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged yesterday to seek stronger measures to contain Iran but Trump refrained from committing to staying in a 2015 nuclear deal and threatened Tehran with retaliation if it restarted its nuclear program.
Dear Editor, For the past two months, the street lights within the township of Anna Regina from Three Friends to Walton Hall have not been working.
A man was granted a total of $120,000 bail on Monday after he denied several charges, including wounding as well as allowing his cow to wander and failing to brand the animal.
The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has secured a 30-year lease of the Vryman’s Erven Municipal Ground, New Amsterdam with the intention of developing the site as a training facility.
Dear Editor, Today, I went to a hardware store to buy nails.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Malaria is spreading rapidly in crisis-hit Venezuela, with more than an estimated 406,000 cases in 2017, up roughly 69 percent from a year before, the largest increase worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cricket West Indies chief executive, Johnny Grave, plans to meet with a quartet of exiled players following the Indian Premier League, in an attempt to clear up the uncertainty surrounding their availability.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A steep drop in U.S. travelers to Cuba after a tightening of travel restrictions by President Donald Trump helped drive a 7 percent slide in foreign visitors to the Caribbean island in the first three months of 2018, Cuban official data showed yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Teachers will no longer mark the School Based Assessment (SBA) from September unless compensated, says President of the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) Lynsley Doodhai.
In just a few months, residents on the East Bank Berbice will be able to travel to their destinations with ease, as the $1.2 Billion road rehabilitation project nears completion, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said yesterday.
(Reuters) Donovan Mitchell recorded 33 points and seven rebounds, and the Utah Jazz took a 3-1 series lead with a scintillating 113-96 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night in Salt Lake City.
Dear Editor, The following is an excerpt from pages 138-139 of Prof Beckles’ recent book on West Indies cricket, Cricket Without a Cause…: “The final stage in laying the foundation for the rise of a twenty-first-century, competitive Test response was the establishment of a CWI-UWI Cricket Academy, built upon the foundations of the university’s success, and the CCC as a transformational force.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Test batsman Sunil Ambris has been crowned St Vincent and the Grenadines’ senior male Sports Personality-of-the-Year.
Dear Editor, The Indian Action Committee (IAC) wishes to extend congratulations to the newly elected President of the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG), Brother Shahabudeen Ahmad.
Clearly in retaliation to the government’s – by way of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) – charging in their absence former minister of finance and chairperson of NICIL Ashni Singh and former NICIL head Winston Brassington with misconduct in public office for selling government lands without proper valuation or under the assessed value, last week two opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) MPs, Juan Edghill and Vickram Bharrat, brought private prosecutions against ministers Volda Lawrence and George Norton for misconduct in public office.
On Monday afternoon at about 1.30 pm, as the City of Toronto finally began to thaw out from a long winter – as recently as last Thursday it was two degrees Celsius with snow on the ground – the warm spring day was disrupted with the shocking news that a van had struck several pedestrians at the busy intersection of Yonge Street and Finch Avenue, in the north end of the city.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Mining Minister, Robert Montague, yesterday told Parliament that the Government is lobbying the U.S.
NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – Evidence of being a serial rapist finally caught up with Bill Cosby after decades of assaulting women and hiding behind his kindly television persona, prosecutors told a Pennsylvania jury yesterday in closing arguments of his sexual assault trial.
