Articles published on Wednesday, January 30, 2019
PPP presidential candidate Irfaan Ali says he has been advised by Canada not to travel there as a result of the 19 charges brought against him by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and he has been given 30 days to respond.
Chief Executive Officer of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited Horace James has passed away.
CARACAS/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro accused U.S. President Donald Trump of ordering his assassination while his main global backer Russia called today for mediation in a standoff deepening geopolitical splits.
(Trinidad Express) A man stepped out of a store Price Street, Port of Spain on Tuesday afternoon and was shot twice by a gunman who chasing another man.
School of the Nations will remain closed for the remainder of the week as its administration works to address parents’ concerns about security in light of violent threats made to the student body on Facebook and the shooting of its principal outside his home on Sunday.
Opposition-nominated commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) were not informed of any meeting to take place on Monday with diplomats from the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union (EU), Commissioner Sase Gunraj has said.
LONDON, CMC – Defending champions West Indies will open the defence of their title against New Zealand, in the highly anticipated edition of next year’s men’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia.
The police are currently on the hunt for a motorcyclist who fled on Monday night after he allegedly struck a 70-year-old man along the Nismes, West Bank Demerara (WBD) Public Road, resulting in his death.
Kallicharran Sawak, the La Bonne Intention (LBI) man who was hospitalised after days in police custody, succumbed on Monday evening at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
St GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has warned that unless there is a change in the current administration of Cricket West Indies, instances like last weekend’s shock win over England in the opening Test will remain one-off occurrences.
A legal opinion drafted by former Attorney General Anil Nandlall in February 2015 is being cited as support for the continued normal functioning of the APNU+AFC government in the period between the passage of the no confidence motion and the holding of General Elections.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Speedster Shannon Gabriel and wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich have recovered from minor injuries picked up in the opening Test and have been passed fit for the second Test starting here tomorrow.
A mother of three was left critical yesterday after she was stabbed during an attack by her ex-husband early yesterday morning at Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Although rehabilitation works are due to start on the dilapidated Leguan Stelling sometime this year, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure has been forced to mobilise for emergency repair works after the stelling’s low ramp broke on Monday.
HOBART, Australia, CMC – Barbadian fast bowler Jofra Archer moved his wickets tally for the Big Bash League to 13, after taking a brace on Tuesday to help Hobart Hurricanes brush aside Brisbane Heat by nine wickets and consolidate their hold on the top of the standings.
Pepsi Hikers and GBTI GCC began 2019 ideally after they clinched top honours in the annual Bounty Farm Ltd.
Sales and consumer traffic have decreased at the Giftland Mall as a result of the roadblocks erected for official activities at the nearby Arthur Chung Conference Centre preventing many customers from getting to the mall, according to Chairman of the Giftland Group Roy Beepat.
A city shop owner was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with possession of narcotics.
Despite concluding the ‘Stag Beer Super 16 Championship’ on January 1st, the Wayne Forde led Guyana Football Federation [GFF] has failed pay the prize monies to winner Den Amstel, runner-up Buxton United and third place side Fruta Conquerors.
A half-century from Ronaldo Ali-Mohammed and a four wicket haul by Deonarine Seegobin ensured Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) defeat Transport Sports Club by 31 runs in Sunday’s rain-hit contest of the Georgetown Cricket Association’s New Building Society second -division 40-overs tournament.
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo’s office has alleged that heavily armed persons associated with the opposition were within the precincts of Parliament during the consideration of the no-confidence motion on December 21st last year.
Dear Editor, Justice Sandil Kissoon, in an order dated January 21, 2019, mandated the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) to pay those retrenched Wales cane cutters who worked at Uitvlugt Estate following the closure of Wales at the end of 2016, one month’s pay.
CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh, CMC – Veteran West Indies superstar Chris Gayle failed again but his Rangpur Riders did just enough to beat Johnson Charles’s Rajshahi Kings by six wickets yesterday, and maintain their position at the top of the Bangladesh Premier League standings.
Over the Christmas holidays, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) detained a large number of drones as they were brought into the country without the requisite permit.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Monday opened its first regional tax office at Mabaruma, in Region One.
Dear Editor, Your letter writer Mr. Patrick Davis `We must be clear-eyed about how detrimental tearing up contracts could be’ (Sunday Stabroek, January 27) attempts to disparage Dr.
A total of 44 teams are set to take part in the first ever Berbice Cricket Board/Shimron Hetmyer Intermediate cricket tournament.
International consultancy firm on Oil and Gas, Bayphase of the United Kingdom yesterday tendered a US$281,000 bid to provide services to the Natural Resources Ministry.
Title holders Guyana Jaguars have named a 13-member squad for their sixth round clash against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force in the Cricket West Indies Regional Four-day Championships with Chandrapaul Hemraj, Raymon Reifer and Vishaul Singh returning while Devendra Bishoo, Trevon Griffith and Keon Joseph have been omitted.
Dear Editor, Reference is made to your editorial titled, `GECOM and elections in three months’ (SN Jan 28, 2019), in which criticism is leveled at both GECOM and Government for delays regarding calling new elections after the successful passage of the December 21 no-confidence motion, despite the constitution requiring a new election within three months (see Article 106 (7)).
A Diamond Housing Scheme man was yesterday granted bail after he denied a charge of being in possession of $325,000 in counterfeit $5,000 notes.
Reigning Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) U19 champions, Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), began the 2019 season with a clinical 10-wicket win over Eco Champs in the Noble House Seafoods Next Generation U19 100 balls competition at DCC Saturday.
Dear Editor, The Dossier is a testament to the death toll of over four hundred citizens, men and women and children, not all who died are included, whose lives were cut short by a system of lawlessness and a callous disregard for human life and rights by above-the-law ‘friends’ of a specific leadership of the PPP.
CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa captain Faf du Plessis picked hosts England and 2011 champions India as the title favourites for this year’s Cricket World Cup and said his side will go into the tournament with lowered expectations, which could work to their advantage.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government struck back at self-declared interim president Juan Guaido yesterday, with the Supreme Court imposing a travel ban and freeze on his bank accounts despite a warning from Washington of “serious consequences” if it did so.
Dear Editor, I read Phil Miller’s piece (SN 28/1) on the Oil Dorado event in London with some interest.
A teen was yesterday granted bail by a city magistrate on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British lawmakers yesterday instructed Prime Minister Theresa May to reopen a Brexit treaty with the European Union to replace a controversial Irish border arrangement – and promptly received a flat rejection from Brussels.
Hundreds of persons showed up on Sunday at the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly- Guyana’s (IDPADA-G) “One Stop Business and Family Welfare Conference.”
(Reuters) – A year in which England will host the World Cup and the Ashes started in the worst possible way with an emphatic 381-run defeat by West Indies in Barbados and they face major selection choices for the second test in Antigua starting on Thursday.
Dear Editor, Last year I made several complaints to GTT about problems with my phone and poor internet service where I live in Agriculture Road.
Introduction For reasons explained over the last two weeks, I believe that Guyana is at present set upon a political trajectory that is unsustainable and dangerous.
Dear Editor, A letter writer recently called upon Guyanese to ‘say yes to life, not suicide’.
The casual cricket follower who resides somewhere in the Eastern Hemisphere must have been quite confused when he initially tuned in to his favourite cricket channel to view the First Test between England and the West Indies last Saturday morning (in the Caribbean, evening on the Sub-continent).
(Trinidad Guardian) Dillian Johnson, who was granted humanitarian protection, is preparing to move to Scotland after he was granted his biometric residence permit in the United Kingdom on Monday.
Nikola Jokic scored 24 points, including a go-ahead basket with 28.9 seconds left, and the visiting Denver Nuggets rallied from 25 points down to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 95-92 on Monday night.
BRASILIA/BRUMADINHO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Vale SA , the world’s largest iron ore miner, yesterday vowed to take as much as 10 percent of its ore output offline in order to decommission 10 more dams like the one that burst last week, killing scores of workers and nearby residents.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Monday noted that a key element for the success of the Green State Developmental Strategy: Vision 2040 is sustainable land management and development which includes the mitigation and prevention of land degradation.
