(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) SOUTHERN Division Sup Yussuf Gaffar yesterday boasted of a high number of seizures of guns and a reduction in murders in his division between January and September this year, as compared to last year for the same period.
(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) THE Prime Minister rejected charges that he has a Florida bank account as a deliberate plot to defame him by “spurious and wholly untrue allegations.”
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) FOUR boys charged with assaulting their schoolmate at the Princes Town West Secondary School are to keep away from the 14-year-old during the course of the court matter.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has divested the operation of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) to Mexican entity, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico S.A.B.
PANAMA CITY, Fla., (Reuters) – Extremely powerful Hurricane Michael crashed into Florida’s northwestern Panhandle coast today, flooding towns and ripping up trees with 155 mile per hour (249 kph) winds and the potential for a devastating storm surge.
A Cromarty man is now a patient at the Anamayah Hospital in Berbice after he was shot to the face when bandits invaded his father’s grocery store on Tuesday evening.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A La Romaine man, accused of robbing three people after they were lured to an area through an online car advertisement, has been granted $300,000 approval bail.
Teachers are not in favour of government’s new wage offer of 10 per cent for 2016 and eight percent for 2018 and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) will likely refuse the offer when representatives meet with the Ministry of Education (MoE) today, according to General Secretary Coretta McDonald.
There are a total of 2,588 documented Venezuelan migrants in Guyana and the Ministry of the Presidency has said that the government is working to support them.
A 70-year-old woman was shot and robbed yesterday afternoon after she was attacked by two bandits at Laluni Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, shortly after visiting a city bank.
Town Clerk Royston King yesterday rejected accusations that he has mismanaged the finances of the municipality, while claiming that the council’s meagre revenue base makes it impossible.
Businessman Terrence Campbell last week told the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the operations of City Hall that he is convinced that the administration is operating in a manner that would force him to either bribe its officers or continue to lose millions, as his plans to expand his various businesses continue to be stymied.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Guyana Jaguars defeated Canada by seven wickets in their day/night Group A match of the Regional Super50 at the Brian Lara Stadium here Tuesday.
A group of six men, all armed with guns, pounced on a family at Lesbeholden, Black Bush Polder on Monday evening, and carted off $7 million in cash and a small quantity of jewellery.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – Rain forced a no-result in the Group A match of the Regional Super50 between Windies B and Windward Islands Volcanoes at Queen’s Park Oval here yesterday.
An enforcement operation underway in Mahdia to address mining safety has resulted in cease work orders being issued and the removal of some operators, according to the Natural Resources Ministry.
(Cricinfo) Rassie van der Dussen launched his international career with a fifty and Imran Tahir took 5 for 23 as South Africa surged to a 34-run win over Zimbabwe in the first T20I at Buffalo Park in East London.
The Batavia Village Council and the miner accused of occupying titled village land have agreed to utilise the assistance of a surveyor in hopes of putting an end to their ongoing dispute.
A total of 130 guns were issued to residents of 12 villages in Region Seven (Cuyuni/ Mazaruni) last Friday by Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Former FIFA vice president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan is not planning a return to the frontline of football politics, even with presidential elections for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and FIFA taking place next year.
Regia-Americare, a newly established home healthcare service provider, is looking to recruit and train medical personnel to cater to its prospective clientele.
RAJKOT, India, CMC – Ex-Test opener Daren Ganga says West Indies’ heavy defeat in the first Test last week was another stern reminder of the crisis in Caribbean cricket, and that cricket in the region was in need of a structural overhaul.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Opener John Campbell’s half-century was enough to see Jamaica Scorpions to their third straight win in as many matches, as they trounced minnows USA Cricket by seven wickets in the Regional Super50 here Monday.
The police in Berbice were up to yesterday preparing a file to seek advice on charging the Number 69 Village, Corentyne man, who confessed to murdering his blocker maker friend on Sunday evening.
A boat captain was yesterday granted $250,000 bail after he denied having possession of quantity of ammunition, which was allegedly found hidden in a boat in the Pomeroon River last Friday.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Debutant Pakistan off-spinner Bilal Asif ripped through the Australian middle-order with six wickets as the visitors were bowled out for 202 on the third day of the first test in Dubai yesterday.
Senior national squash player, Nyron Joseph is pleased with his showing in 2018 following his herculean effort on Sunday to recapture the Lucozade Handicap Squash title which brought the curtain down on senior squash tournaments for the year at the Georgetown Club Squash court.
Former Guyana youth player Danny Narayan smashed a blistering century and returned with the ball to take two wickets for Ruimveldt to propel North Soesdyke to a 44-run defeat at the Everest Cricket Club ground Sunday as the fifth annual East Bank Demerara Cricket Association/Neville Sarjoo Memorial 40-overs-a-side tournament continued.
Bartica resident Wendy Dyers was yesterday asked to post a total of $80,000 bail for her release after she denied charges of possession of cocaine and cannabis.
Dear Editor,
Response is being made to Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman’s letter, “Workers’ rights are not being pushed aside” (SN, 9/10/2018).
With the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s World T20 exactly a month away, there is no word on the progress as it relates to the acquisition of the replay screen for the Guyana matches set to be hosted at the Providence National Stadium.
Bids were yesterday opened for the procurement of seven new vehicles, including five new Toyota Land Cruisers, for the Office of the Elections Commission.
(Reuters) – Far-right Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro vowed yesterday to appoint non-partisan ministers, breaking with the tradition of building cabinets through coalitions, as part of his bid to tackle graft in Latin America’s largest economy.
Dear Editor,
The various summary reports on TV channels and in the press about the candidatures (parties, groups, individuals) for representation at the forthcoming Local Government (not communities) Elections, gave brief insights into their respective programmes, aspirations, and even reservations about the future prospects of their communities.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s Serik Konakbayev, a vice president of the international boxing association (AIBA), has filed an urgent appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his exclusion as a presidential candidate, CAS said yesterday.
Dear Editor,
I opened an e-mail last Saturday from Sally Yearwood, Executive Director of the Caribbean-Central American Action (CCAA) that began as follows,
“Dear Wesley,
Caribbean-Central American Action (CCAA) has always been an organisation driven as much by its programs and advocacy as by the people who have supported it over the years.
(Reuters) The weekend earthquake which battered Haiti killed 17 people, authorities said on Tuesday, and damaged or destroyed nearly 2,500 houses, sparking fears that many buildings are in a precarious state in the impoverished Caribbean country.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has instructed the police to conduct further investigations into last month’s fatal accident in which Conrad Alleyne, 64, lost his life after he was allegedly struck down by a senior member of the Guyana Police Force.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee has asked Senegal to support a French investigation into the son of the former head of the international athletics federation (IAAF) who is suspected of corruption, IOC President Thomas Bach said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Turkey said on Tuesday it would search Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished last week, and close ally Britain called on Riyadh to provide “urgent answers” over his disappearance.
The police in ‘A’ Division are currently on the hunt for two men who allegedly attacked and injured a vendor during an attempted robbery early yesterday morning at Post Office Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara.
(Reuters) – The #MeToo movement in India has gathered momentum in recent days, with more than a dozen complaints of sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct leveled online against prominent journalists, actors, movie directors, comedians and other public figures.
As this column has noted before, it was the dreaded Cardinal Richelieu who claimed, ‘If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.’