Daily Archive: Monday, March 11, 2019

(Trinidad Express) A 21-year-old Arima man is the second person to be charged with murdering 62-year-old Monica Ruiz.

Almost a month after Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan found that a case was made out against Rick Sewcharran, who was accused of the unlawful killing of his girlfriend, Sasia Adams, he was discharged today due to insufficient evidence.

A group of civil society organisations today voiced concern that the country is headed towards a constitutional crisis and it urged the President and the Leader of the Opposition to “recognize their respective responsibilities to honour the Constitution”.

A civil society grouping today said President David Granger’s deferring of the responsibility to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for the naming of an elections date is unacceptable.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have urged the International Cricket Council to take strong action against India after their cricketers wore army camouflage-style caps in a match against Australia on Friday.

ADDIS ABABA/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China, Indonesia and Ethiopia grounded their Boeing Co 737 MAX 8 fleets today while investigators found the black box from a crash that killed 157 people in the second disaster involving that airplane model in six months.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Nineteen-year-old Davina Scott overcame poverty in her native Jamaica and the embarrassment of not being able to read and write to rise to become one of 10 students who have received a New York Times College Scholarship.

(Trinidad Express) Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith is responding to a report in today’s Express in which a former Commissioner of Police said that police officers were breaking the law by wearing camouflage.

(Jamaica Observer) A security guard and a driver were gunned down in a dramatic, suspected multi million-dollar heist by heavily armed men who intercepted the marked security company vehicle they were using to escort a minibus here yesterday morning.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday urged supporters to “chase” government officials from wherever they go after March 21 even as he challenged the international community, particularly CARICOM, to implement sanctions to pressure the government to hold elections.

A boat explosion at the mouth of the Waini River in the north west has claimed the life of a Venezuelan national and a second person is missing and feared dead.

Beverage firm, Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) says it recorded its highest revenue ever last year with total revenue for 2018 pegged at $21.862 billion and profit after tax standing at $3.279 billion.

A Corentyne man succumbed to his injuries yesterday at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he was shot on Saturday after allegedly charging towards policemen with a cutlass while they were attempting to arrest him. 

Dear Editor, We wish to contribute to the ongoing dispute regarding the vaccination of children in public and private schools, the health effects of vaccines, and the matter of consent.

Gun-toting bandits on Saturday night carried out a brazen attack on a Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo family robbing them of over $4 million dollars in cash, jewellery and other items, and police have since arrested one person.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – England needed just two hours and 23-½ overs to dispose of West Indies by eight wickets in the third Twenty20 International at Warner Park, and complete a ruthless whitewash of the World champions here yesterday.

Dear Editor, Ever since February 26, SN’s Editorial had commented very assertively on the institutionalised contempt a foreign investor (Rusal) had shown to its Guyanese workers, and the substantive disrespect that employer had so far displayed for the country’s industrial relations laws, principles, procedures and practices.

Politician Ralph Ramkarran says that the APNU+AFC government seems prepared to expose Guyana to risk through its intention to stay in office despite the constitutional edict that fresh general elections be held.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Barbados Pride’s Jamaican import, Marquino Mindley, smashed rookie off-spinner Akim Fraser for six to ease the tension and hand the visitors a nerve-jangling two-wicket victory over Jamaica Scorpions, on the final day of their 10th round match here yesterday.

An accident during the wee hours of yesterday claimed the life of a man on the Annandale, Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Dear Editor, As a frequent flyer on Caribbean Airlines, I have noticed a trend that has become quite annoying.

Curtis Dey (Trojan PSL) took a stunning victory in this year’s Cheddi Jagan road race yesterday after attacking late and holding off some of the nation’s elite sprinters.

Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) executives say they are yet to see the terms of the $30 billion bond secured for the corporation and said the proposed approach to utilise the money will not enable the corporation to achieve the goals and objectives in its Strategic Plan.

Dear Editor, Forty-four British Guianese were on the SS Windrush in 1948.

Defending champions, the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC), along with the Gandhi Youth Organisation registered first-round wins in the 2019 GISE, Star Party Rental and Trophy Stall First Division two-day competition. 

There are no legal or constitutional provisions that invalidate government contracts or the business of government following a successful no-confidence vote, Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin told Berbice businesspersons on Saturday.

Dear Editor, I used to read Mr. Ralph Ramkarran’s column, Conversation Tree, in the Sunday Stabroek without question because in the vein of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, ‘For Ramkarran is an honourable man’.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), on Friday stated that the administration is hopeful of completing the institution’s move to electronic medical records by the end of 2019.

Independence defeated Mc Gill Super Stars by three wickets at the Joe Vieira Park yesterday to secure the inaugural West Demerara Cricket Association/Agape Lumber Yard T20 knockout title.

Dear Editor, I believe that the picture shown in the Indian Arrival Monument at Palmyra in Berbice does not give a true reflection of the actual event in several aspects including the head-wear of the male immigrant.

Defending champion Trafalgar will oppose Litchfield, while East Bank Gunners will oppose New Amsterdam [NA] Kings in the semi-final round of the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Berbice Championship, following group wins on Saturday.

NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA,  (Reuters) – An Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off yesterday, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in October.

Dear Editor, The hardliners in the PNC have taken to the position of instructing the APNU+AFC that House-to-House Registration is mandatory.

The police have been told to conduct further investigations into the violent threats made to the student body of the School of the Nations and the subsequent shooting of its principal outside his home in January.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India will hold a general election in seven stages starting on April 11, the election commission said yesterday, in what will be the world’s biggest democratic exercise with Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to benefit from tension with Pakistan.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel yesterday as the country endured a fourth day of a nationwide blackout that has left already-scarce food rotting in shops, homes suffering for lack of water and cell phones without reception.

Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman on Saturday visited workers of Russian Aluminium (RUSAL) who continue strike action along the Berbice River and urged a resolution of the now almost one-month long dispute.

Top local badminton player Narayan Ramdhani continued his excellent season, copping a gold in the team event and a bronze medal in singles at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA National Badminton Championships at Dalhousie Agricultural Campus, Nova Scotia, Canada last week.

Dear Editor: Permit me space to comment on the ongoing constitutional crisis which seems to have evaded the prefixed vision of several commentators across the spectrum of print media, social and discussion forums.

The penultimate weekend of this year’s Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) first-division outdoor league saw defending champions Pepsi Hikers and Bounty GCC recording convincing wins at the St Stanislaus College ground yesterday.

Vashtie Mahase, the young mother of two who was brutally chopped two weeks ago while accompanying a Rural Constable (RC) to serve her partner a restraining order, has been discharged from the hospital but was forced to flee her home in fear for her safety.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Brexit could be reversed if lawmakers reject the government’s exit deal, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said yesterday after two major eurosceptic factions in parliament warned that Prime Minister Theresa May was facing a heavy defeat.

Dear Editor, This has to be a sick country, a very sick one that is, to use the vocabulary of the less literate, also totally spaced out. 

(Trinidad Express) Someone shot and killed a couple in Sangre Grande yesterday morning.

By Axel van Trotsenburg World Bank’s Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Every woman born in Latin America and the Carib-bean faces a life filled with social and economic hurdles.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of Syrians in the southern city of Deraa protested yesterday at the erection of a new statue of President Bashar al-Assad’s late father, nearly eight years after the original was toppled at the outbreak of Syria’s civil war.

Dear Editor, It took the deaths of three children for it to be realized that seniors must be present to supervise juniors and that standard protocols be observed.

Things like rule of law, democracy and you know, competence and facts; those things are not partisan, but they also don’t happen automatically.

By Carolyn Cooper Carolyn Cooper is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

(Trinidad Express) A motion calling on the Prime Minister to take action against Chief Justice Ivor Archie is to be debated in the House of Represen-tatives.

The Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) pool of Immigration Officers has expanded, after 36 new officers completed a six-week course on Friday.

St. Mary’s and the Bishops’ High Schools secured easy wins when the Milo Secondary Schools football championship continued yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

Following an investigation, the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) has confirmed that three young cancer patients succumbed after the improper administration of chemotherapy drugs.

By Greg Quinn British High Commissioner to Guyana On 11 March the 53 members of the Commonwealth will celebrate Common-wealth Day. 

PPP supporters yesterday at the annual observance at Babu John, Port Mourant in honour of the memory of the late President Cheddi Jagan.