Articles published on Wednesday, October 31, 2018
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Jamaica’s tourism sector has been left with the difficult task of trying to cauterise serious damage being done to its reputation, following an investigative story published in the international media, which outlined terrifying incidents of sexual assault on several United States tourists at some of the country’s leading resorts.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) Caribbean Airlines is confirming reports that an emergency evacuation of flight BW 1526 took place at the Piarco International Airport, Trinidad on Tuesday.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) MINISTER without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Daryl Vaz says several additional State assets have been identified and shortlisted for privatisation by the Government.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A man is in police custody after he attempted to sexually assault a woman at the Scarborough Library in Tobago shortly before noon yesterday.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) A man was shot dead and another left nursing injuries after they were pounced on by armed men while playing dominoes at a shop in Three Miles River district, Westmoreland last night.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A YELLOW alert is now in effect as adverse weather conditions are expected to last from today through Friday.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A socially displaced man appeared before the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court on Monday, after being charged with attacking another socially displaced man who was awaiting a complimentary meal from a church.
(JAMAICA OBSERVER) The police are reporting that a man was arrested and charged on Monday after he turned up at a medical facility in Falmouth, Trelawny where a pound of cocaine was extracted from his stomach in an emergency operation.
(TRINIDAD GUARDIAN) A Princes Town man is due to appear before a Siparia Magistrate today, charged with the possession of a firearm after being arrested by officers of the South Western Division Task Force (SWDTF) during an anti-crime exercise in Penal yesterday.
Marcus Bisram may soon arrive on Guyanese soil to have his day in local courts on the murder charge he faces as his recent bid to prevent US authorities from extraditing him to Guyana failed yesterday when US Judge Kiyo A.
(Reuters) – Former Sri Lanka paceman and bowling coach Nuwan Zoysa has been provisionally suspended with immediate effect today after being charged under the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code.
(Trinidad Guardian) “I wish he was here to see how much people loved him,” said Sharlan Bailey, as he delivered the eulogy for his father Dr Winston “Mighty Shadow” Bailey, in front of a mass of white-clad well-wishers at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.
-agencies to meet on seizure of local assets Shervington Lovell and one of two men held with him in Jamaica on drug trafficking charges were on the radar of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) for years, according to the agency’s former head James Singh, who says he feels vindicated by the arrests.
Paulette Wade, the midwife whose lifeless body was discovered on the floor of her Kwakwani home last Friday, was strangled and bludgeoned to the head, and three men from her community have since been arrested.
A suspect has been charged with the murder of Ann’s Grove miner Kelvin Daly, who was found chopped to death at the start of the month.
Friendship Hotels and Restaurant Holdings Limited is suing the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for damages in excess of $200 million after what it says is the unlawful levy on immovable property it owned.
After being charged a year ago with causing the death of his common-law wife, who died after they fell from a motorbike along the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) public road, Laurent McGarrell was yesterday sentenced to two years for the crime.
Video footage of the assault of Palm Court nightclub patron Romario Baljeet has surfaced.
A labourer is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with using a paddle to fatally beat a friend at the Timehri wharf.
Major wins by second division clubs playing in the GTT National Indoor Hockey Championships, highlighted the third evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) last evening.
The government is to construct a 70-mile road linking the North and Central Rupununi, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
Ireland’s female cricket team became the first to arrive for the Guyana leg of the November 9-24 International Cricket Council’s T20 Women’s World Cup competition.
Former Ministry of the Presidency Permanent Secretary Omar Shariff and his wife, who are accused of failing to comply with a court order, were yesterday told that they would have to lead a defence to the charge against them.
During round two of the Guyana Cricket Board under-17 Secondary Schools Female Franchise T20 tournament, wicketkeeper Lavina Ragobeer batted responsibly while Lisa Charles struck a blazing innings to see Essequibo beat East Coast by five wickets yesterday at the Enterprise Community Centre Ground, East Coast Demerara.
A man was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in jail after he admitted to stealing $1 million from his employer.
Imam Bacchus Sports Club of Affiance, Essequibo Coast will tour neighboring Suriname to take on Amarshakti Sport Club of Paramaribo in a series of T/20 games starting November 1.
The Ministry of Indige-nous Peoples’ Affairs has been unable to properly account for the $865.1 million reportedly spent under the Hinterland Employment and Youth Services (HEYS) programme and amounts totalling $210.3 million that were released for projects in over 200 Amerindian villages, the 2017 Auditor General’s Report has said.
Andrew Samaroo’s exceptional form continued with both bat and ball as he led Bel Air Rubis to a 10-wicket hammering of Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) Cricket Club at Ogle Sunday during the latest round of the Georgetown Cricket Association/Friends of Cricket U17 100 overs tournament.
Yesterday, ranks of the Guyana Police Force’s Traffic Department, Headquarters Eve Leary conducted an exercise in Georgetown which targeted motor vehicles with obscured identification marks.
Reliance Hustlers, Reliance Sports Club, Queenstown Sports Club and Imam Bacchus Sports Club are through to the semifinals of the Central Essequibo Cricket Committee 20/20 competition.
The Batavia Village Council is awaiting verification of a recent land survey by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) before commencing negotiations to resolve a dispute with miner Rickey Ramnarine.
McGill Superstar Sports Club made it two in two, defeating Laluni Sports Club and Meten-Meer-Zorg Sports Club (MMZ) during the Elroy T20 competition Sunday at the Meten-Meer-Zorg Ground.
The Demerara Harbour Bridge Company yesterday received multi-million dollar bids for the construction of an Administrative and Quality Control Laboratory building.
Hosts, Fairfield Sports Club, defeated Transport Sports Club (TSC) by 45 runs Sunday in a friendly encounter.
Techemet which has been offering brokerage and trading services to the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) for approximately four years now last week paid a courtesy call on the agency as the latter continues to pursue measures to ensure compliance and enhance transparency.
The Government Analyst–Food & Drug Department (GA-FDD) is calling on all water processing factories to conform to all of the department’s requirements as it relates to the sale and distribution of treated water in five- gallon bottles.
The Hamilton Green 9-a-side Inter-Ward Football Championships will resume on Sunday at the Den Amstel Community ground.
Timehri Panthers, Agricola Red Triangle and Soesdyke Falcons secured lopsided wins when the East Bank Football Association [EBFA] Year-end Qualifiers continued Sunday at the Diamond Community Centre ground.
The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) is investigating the reported raids on the homes of two La Penitence families last Wednesday by persons purporting to be officers attached to CANU and the Police Narcotics Branch.
The Guyana Police Force yesterday announced the discovery of the skeletal remains of an unidentified male in the Diamond Backlands.
Amelia’s Ward Panthers edged Hi-Stars while Topp XX and Botofago battled to a draw when the Upper Demerara Football Association [UDFA] Senior League resumed yesterday.
A five-member team from Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is in the Netherlands undergoing three weeks of well regeneration training.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses and Colleges Marooners skipper, Carlos Brathwaite, said his side’s triumph in the Regional Super50 was built on a desire not to simply compete but to play an aggressive brand of cricket and actually win the competition.
Three former policemen were on Monday sentenced to one year imprisonment and fined $25,000 each at the Whim Magistrate’s Court, after they were found guilty of accepting a $6M bribe in September, 2015.
The Vergenoegen Secondary School is now benefiting from a $14M annex as well as a $4M canteen, guard hut and landfilled compound, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Two-time Twenty20 World Cup-winning captain, Darren Sammy, has urged fans to buy their tickets for the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup being staged in the Caribbean, and throw their full support behind the hosts who are defending champions.
On its first solo outing at the Local Government Elections, the Alliance for Change (AFC) is set to battle it out with its coalition partner, APNU in Linden.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, the visionary behind Combined Campuses and Colleges, says the team’s success in the Regional Super50 has confirmed the programme as the “heartland of the West Indies cricket academy.”
The Linden Fund Trust (LFT)/Linden Community Forum has invited the parties contesting in the region at the November 12 local government elections – the AFC, APNU, PPP/C and the URP to participate in two Town Meetings/Debates.
Dear Editor, On 25/09/2018 the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) by way of correspondence from its General Secretary (a.g.)
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – With congressional elections a week away, President Donald Trump yesterday said he will seek to scrap the right of citizenship for U.S.-born
Students in the East Canje, Berbice area will now get to school free of cost as the government along with Princess Ramada Hotel commissioned its 29th David ‘G’ School Bus on Monday at the Canje Secondary School.
Football has for many years been classified as the undisputed king of sport, played on every continent and in almost if not all 195 recognized countries that comprise the world.
Dear Editor, The situation on the East Bank Highway is completely out of control.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela poses a clear threat to regional stability and its economic collapse could drag down key U.S.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Pressure was building on Cricket Australia chairman David Peever to resign yesterday in the wake of the release of a scathing independent review into the culture of the game.
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter with great sentiments regarding Justice Cecil Kennard, a retired judge, appointed to head a Commission of Inquiry– an inquiry which was set up to investigate the operation of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council.
As part of efforts to strengthen its regulatory oversight role regarding the use of high risk drugs in Guyana, the Government Analyst–Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) recently participated in a workshop on the registration process associated with biologics and biosimilar-type drugs.
COPENHAGEN, (Reuters) – Denmark said yesterday it suspected an Iranian government intelligence service had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition figure on its soil.
(Trinidad Express) One of the country’s largest commercial bank was targeted by skimmers over the weekend.
Robert Forrester, whose photograph was placed in an advertisement over the weekend advising the public that he was not authorised to transact business on behalf of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA), is not an agent of the CHPA says Chief Executive Officer Lelon Saul.
Dear Editor, Rarely have we seen a businessman succeed in Guyana who doesn’t pay bribes.
PERTH, (Reuters) – Young South Africa speedster Lungi Ngidi has singled out Australia’s newly-appointed 50-over captain Aaron Finch as a major threat to his side’s chances in the three match one-day international series, which begins in Perth on Sunday.
Paint job: The road in front of the Georgetown Magistrate’s court got a facelift yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A security guard was shot and killed outside Anand Low Price Supermarket in Debe yesterday afternoon.
Michael Smith, the accused in a burglary, was yesterday remanded to prison after a court heard that he was seen leaving with the stolen goods, which were later found in his house.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has been turning up the heat on some controversial and potentially highly divisive religious issues in recent days, with crucial state elections only weeks away and a general election due by next May.
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to a letter by Yuri Westmaas captioned `Crude behaviour by CAL flight attendant’ (SN Oct 26).
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Rohit Sharma struck yet another ‘daddy hundred’ but it was probably Ambati Rayudu’s relatively modest century on Monday which pleased India captain Virat Kohli more as he seeks an end to a pesky problem seven months before next year’s World Cup.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s second-highest court has tossed out the appeal filed by a Manchester man against the 18-year prison sentence handed to him for throwing his female companion off a second-floor balcony, leaving her paralysed from the waist down.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – A Bangladesh court yesterday doubled to 10 years a jail term for former prime minister Khaleda Zia for graft, ruling out her chances of contesting an election in December, lawyers said.
The Bishops’ High and Marian Academy Schools secured contrasting wins when the Guyoil/Tradewind/Tankers Under-18 Secondary Schools Football tournament continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.
Klay Thompson set an NBA record with 14 3-pointers as part of an NBA-season-high 52-point performance, and the visiting Golden State Warriors stormed to a 149-124 win over the Chicago Bulls on Monday night.
Recently, Israel’s constitution (Basic Law) was changed to described the country as ‘the national home of the Jewish people’ and Jerusalem, even the parts claimed by the Palestinians, as the ‘complete and united … capital of Israel.’
Following the ball tampering incident involving the Australia team during a Test match in South Africa in March of this year, Cricket Australia (CA), the organization responsible for overseeing cricket in Australia, commissioned a cultural review of Australian cricket.
Longstanding sponsors of the Guyana Relief Council (GRC) were lauded for their support as the organisation hosted its Annual Luncheon and Dutch Auction at the Pegasus Hotel on October 28.
Dear Editor, On Saturday 27 October, Ranks of “D” Division (West Demerara/East Bank Essequibo) in collaboration with the Throne Room Full Gospel International Church, hosted a Career Fair and Medical Outreach Programme in Westminster, La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara.
