Articles published on Wednesday, December 12, 2018
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May survived a confidence vote from her Conservative party today, but more than a third of her lawmakers said she was no longer the right leader to implement Britain’s exit from the European Union.
(Trinidad Express) An argument over an Orchard fruit drink at a mini-mart in Tunapuna has led to the shooting death of 47-year-old Lester “Bellyman” Sookhai on Tuesday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sentenced to a total of three years in prison today for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump’s 2016 election campaign and lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia.
(Jamaica Observer) The post-mortem conducted on Karen Cleary-Brown — who was found dead at her home in Boscobel, St Mary, last week — has revealed that she was stabbed nine times.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to fight for her job in a leadership challenge on Wednesday triggered by Conservative lawmakers, saying a change could jeopardise Britain’s divorce from the European Union.
(Trinidad Express) Bail has been set at $300,000 for a 32-year-old financial advisor and managing director of an investment company.
(Jamaica Observer) A man who was taken into custody on Sunday after he crashed a stolen taxi into the perimeter fence of a church on Lyndhurst Road, St Andrew is yet to be charged.
(Jamaica Observer) A two-year-old parliamentary committee reviewing sexual offences legislation has recommended that buggery, abortion and other issues of “broad public divide” could be put to a referendum.
The bodies of a Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway couple with multiple stab wounds were discovered in their home by their children yesterday morning, following an argument hours before.
The National Industrial & Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) yesterday announced that it has placed its 6,099,927 equity shares in Guyana Stockfeeds Incorporated on the local stock market.
Motorbike racer Stephen Vieira yesterday professed his innocence in an attempt to ship $550 million worth of cocaine in dressed lumber to the United States.
Umesh Boodram, the driver who collided with two young men on a motorcycle at Ogle, was yesterday charged with causing their deaths by dangerous driving.
Ryan Persaud, the police constable who was involved in the accident that left motorcyclist Akemo Anthony dead in September, was yesterday freed of a related driving under the influence charge.
President David Granger returned to Guyana last night after completing the second round of chemotherapy for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, the Ministry of the Presidency said.
An argument over $600 led to a woman being charged yesterday with the attempted murder of a vendor.
ExxonMobil has funded the purchase of US$40,000 ($8.4m) worth of equipment for the Physics Lab at the University of Guyana which was destroyed by a fire in 2015.
Two youths were yesterday both released on bail after they denied attempting to rob an undercover police officer.
The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) in collaboration with Nand Persaud Group of Companies over the weekend, launched the first women’s tournament of the year.
(Cricket West Indies) CAVE HILL, Barbados –Keacy Carty’s outlook for his cricket career could be rooted in The Golden Rule of Maturity – “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things”.
Minister of Agriculture Noel Holder is set to get a new four-wheel drive vehicle and the City of Georgetown is to receive four mobile pumps through the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to alleviate flooding in the city once the national budget is given parliamentary approval.
Muslim Youth Organisation (MYO) recorded a win by just two wickets over Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) recently in the Georgetown Cricket Association/ New Building Society 40-over second division tournament.
While expecting that the major parties will be pulling out all the stops at the 2020 elections, former United States Ambassador Perry Holloway says that defusing the racial conflict that has been fueled by politics will require work by both sides of the divide.
A Venezuelan man was on Monday sentenced to two years in jail after he admitted to illegally having a pistol and matching rounds of live ammunition.
(Field Level Media) Bryn Forbes scored a season-high 24 points and pulled down a career-high 11 rebounds to lead a balanced San Antonio attack as the Spurs strolled past the visiting Phoenix Suns 111-86 yesterday.
To ensure children of “displaced sugar workers” do not miss school because they have nothing to eat, a group of Berbicians who formed an organisation, Service to Humanity (StH) are continuing to provide them with meals.
(Field Level Media) James Harden scored a team-high 29 points, but it was a maligned group of reserves who helped carry the host Houston Rockets to a come-from-behind, 111-103 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers yesterday.
Over $1 billion has been allocated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the payment of legal fees associated with Guyana’s move to the International Court of Justice for the adjudication of its border controversy with Venezuela, Minister Carl Greenidge revealed on Monday after being questioned by Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira during the consideration of the planned expenditure for next year.
Dear Editor, Tourism month has come and gone. I would like to share my experiences as once again there is some talk of tourism in the papers.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – All-rounder Glenn Maxwell has said he will turn his back on the lucrative Indian Premier League next year and play a full season of English county cricket in a bid to regain his spot in the Australian test side.
Former head of the football Normalization Committee (NC), Clinton Urling, says that the recently concluded inquiry into the sexual harassment of female referees is a reminder of the issues affecting the football landscape, and that a zero tolerance policy must be endorsed against offenders.
Sentenced to 70 years in jail for murder, Lloyd Rampersaud has challenged both his conviction and the sentence, with his lawyer saying that the trial judge failed to direct the jury on how to deal with glaring “discrepancies” in the evidence presented.
The Guyana Football Federation [GFF], concluded its five-day FIFA facilitated Futsal Referees Workshop, on Sunday at the National Resource Centre, Woolford Avenue.
Dear Editor, This letter is continuing to bring to the public attention, essential aspects of the Report of Professor Harold Lutchman’s Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service 2016, which recommended a Public Service Law for the management and administration of the Public Service.
Former Guyana Football Federation [GFF] President Christopher Matthias has questioned the capacity and overall decision of the federation to allow the Kashif and Shanghai Organization to coordinate the inaugural ExxonMobil Futsal Festival.
A man was on Monday granted his release on $50,000 bail after he was charged with damaging a pregnant woman’s car.
Dear Editor, Every day, for the past several years, at least one chartered plane carrying U.S.
Continuing arguments in his client’s appeal to a murder conviction and a 57-year sentence, attorney Ronald Burch-Smith on Wednesday submitted that trial judge Navindra Singh’s sentencing system is “arbitrary, unfair and unconstitutional.”
Dear Editor, The government (coalition APNU+AFC) qualifies for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records.
ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Having become the first Indian team to win a test series-opener on Australian soil, Virat Kohli’s side are determined to keep the momentum rolling into the second clash in Perth and inch closer to a breakthrough series triumph Down Under.
A number of primary school students in Regions Five and Six will now have a place in their schools to read thanks to a drive held by students of the University of Guyana, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.
VANCOUVER, (Reuters) – A top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd was granted bail by a Canadian court yesterday, 10 days after her arrest in Vancouver at the request of U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Law Association of T&T (LATT) membership has voted to refer allegations of misconduct against Chief Justice Ivor Archie to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley for his consideration of impeachment proceedings against the CJ.
Dear Editor, The Department of Public Information provides the following information in response to two malicious articles appearing on the Newsroom website which is operated by the eNetworks cable company.
LIVERPOOL, England, (Reuters) – Mohamed Salah’s delightful first-half strike gave Liverpool a 1-0 win over Napoli at Anfield yesterday that sent them into the Champions League’s last 16 and the Italian side crashing out.
A youth was yesterday remanded to prison by a city magistrate on a charge that he robbed a man of over $100,000 in cash and items in an armed attack.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Elegant Shai Hope struck a superb career-best hundred to headline a successful West Indies run chase, as the Caribbean side edged Bangladesh by four wickets in the second One-Day International, to level the three-match series here yesterday.
Dear Editor, The Ministry of Public Infrastructure would like to express its apologies to all passengers who were on board MV Sabanto, which experienced hydraulic failure on November 24, 2018.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he was not concerned that he could be impeached and that hush payments made ahead of the 2016 election by his former personal attorney Michael Cohen to two women did not violate campaign finance laws.
The National Assembly’s Committee of Supply on Monday approved the budgetary allocations for the Departments of Social Cohesion, Culture, Youth and Sport but not before subject minister Dr.
LONDON, CMC – England have named an unchanged squad for their three-Test series against West Indies starting next month, with Barbadian fast-bowling sensation Jofra Archer still sweating on qualification.
A cook was on Monday remanded to prison until the new year after a city court heard that he was found with a quantity of bagged cannabis in his home during a police raid.
Two Saturdays ago, on 1st December, Meng Wanzhou, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, was arrested in Vancouver, Canada.
Dear Editor, Not me alone is troubled and concerned by the poor and slow quality of internet service provided by Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) but maybe also several thousands of other customers who are paying punctually every month for this poor service.
A few weeks before the last local government elections, a longstanding Baronian friend with whom I use to roam the streets of London before he took off to film school and I to university, and whose late mother was born in Beterverwagting (BV), informed me that the family would prepare a plot of land it owns in the village and offer it to the BV/Triumph Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) for use as a small community park.
The construction of new holding facilities at the Camp Street Prison is likely to commence in early 2019 as tenders for the reconstruction of the foundation for cell blocks were opened yesterday under the Ministry of Public Security.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Estate Police Association of T&T yesterday said it stood behind officer Kelvon Alexander in the recent issue involving Foreign Minister Dennis Moses at the Piarco International Airport.
STRASBOURG, France, (Reuters) – A gunman on a security watchlist killed three people and wounded a dozen others near the picturesque Christmas market in the historic French city of Strasbourg last evening before fleeing.
(Trinidad Guardian) A family of three has appeared in the the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition.
