Daily Archive: Thursday, March 21, 2019

(Trinidad Express) HOURS after a Hindu priest performed an “exorcism” at the Mathura home in Gasparillo, the ‘buck’ still showed up.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A teacher who is alleging that he was assaulted by members of Calabar High School’s track and field team, including two prominent athletes, is planning to go public at a press conference tomorrow.

Reporting on its mission here this week, the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center today said it hopes that Parliament will convene no later than tomorrow to authorize an extension of the three-month election deadline and it noted the constitutional uncertainty than can arise if this is not done.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica yesterday announced that its embassy in Caracas, Venezuela will be temporarily closed, with effect April 1.

Phagwah has the distinction of transcending biological, cultural, economic and even political differences, stated Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge during Holi (Phagwah) celebrations, at the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre earlier today.

Police Commissioner Leslie James today issued the following statement: A Happy and Joyous Holi, greetings to all my Hindu Brothers and Sisters in Guyana and within the diaspora. 

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Michel Temer was arrested today in an investigation of alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant, prosecutors said, threatening to delay debate over the government’s ambitious fiscal reforms.

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon rejected a plan by President David Granger to name a date for general elections using the GECOM benchmark of November and he warned again that as of midnight tonight the government would be considered illegal.

President David Granger is to shortly name a date for general elections using the framework supplied by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which had indicated that it would be ready by November this year.

(Trinidad Express) Dominic Guevarra who survived a shotgun attack which killed his wife a year ago, has been charged with her murder.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A London museum has handed back locks of hair cut from the corpse of an Ethiopian emperor during a British invasion 150 years ago, after a campaign by activists seeking the return of hundreds of pieces of colonial plunder.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five fe­male Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice Of­fi­cers and a se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent of po­lice are among sev­en po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau for mis­chief in pub­lic of­fice.

Given the concerns expressed that the existing voters’ list is ‘bloated’ with the names of Guyanese living abroad, representatives of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center yesterday suggested to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that general elections can be held in August if existing legislation is activated to remove such names from the list.

The Guyana Court of Appeal will be delivering its ruling at 3 pm tomorrow on all three of the challenges to the December 21st, 2018 passage of the no-confidence motion against the David Granger-led government.

A total of 140 Venezuelan migrants were processed  by the police yesterday morning after arriving in the city and while about half were released into the care of acquaintances/relatives, the others are being accommodated at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary.

Just over a month after a labour dispute erupted at the Russian-owned Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), the standoff has come to an end with the firm agreeing to reinstate 61 sacked workers and negotiate a new Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) with the workers’ union.

Fazil Osman, the Mahaica farmer who is accused of brutally chopping his reputed wife last month while she was accompanying a rural constable to serve a protection order on him, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with attempted murder.

A 12-member jury yesterday found a man guilty of carnal knowledge of a child, who was four years old at the time of the incident.

Chairman of Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) David Armogan on Tuesday said that if Guyana enters a “constitutional crisis,” then regional contracts which have not been awarded should be put on hold.

With mere days before Cricket West Indies (CWI)  elections on Sunday, Presidental candidate, Ricky Skerritt, who is challenging incumbent Dave Cameron, says that he  believes his team, which includes his running mate, Dr.

New US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch while congratulating the country on the establishing of a Sovereign Wealth Fund has cautioned about the need to balance between short and long-term goals for the use of resources.

The Belize National team arrived on local shores yesterday for their must-win encounter with the Golden Jaguars on Saturday in the CONCACAF Nations League at the National Track & Field Centre, Leonora.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the murder of Beterverwagting (BV) bread vendor, Clairmont Telesford, who was discovered dead on Sunday morning shortly after a robbery at his home.

The Guyana Police Force, Felix Austin and Richard Faikal Police Colleges will meet head-to-head today for the first ever mini athletics meet which will be hosted by the Georgetown Branch of the Training Schools.

A group calling itself “Majority Stakeholders” says that it is rejecting the appointment of Steven Lewis as Cricket Ombudsman, referring to the appointment by Minister of Social Cohesion, George Norton, as unethical.

Residents of Timehri North and Hauraruni, East Bank of Demerara, are now receiving improved access to potable water as a result of the Water Supply System Improvement Sub-Projects, the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) has reported.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May made an impassioned appeal to British lawmakers to support her yesterday after the European Union said it could only grant her request to delay Brexit for three months if parliament next week backed her plans for leaving.

Lancelot Grandsoult, the 50-year-old caretaker who was discovered dead on Monday in the yard of a Castello Housing Scheme property he oversaw for a number of years, died of natural causes, an autopsy has found.

After sitting out the first leg of the local Triple Crown due to injury, Guyana’s premier trotter returns to the Rising Sun Turf Club on Sunday for the second leg of the historic fixture.

BEIRA, Mozambique,  (Reuters) – Aid workers rushed to save people trapped by floods around the Mozambican port city of Beira yesterday, after a powerful cyclone killed hundreds and left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa.

A 67-year-old man who appeared in the city’s magistrates’ court before Magistrate Faith McGusty, was yesterday found guilty on a wounding charge.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio met yesterday with the Haitian president and members of parliament and discussed the formation of a new Cabinet following the ouster this week of Jean Henry Ceant as prime minister.

After losing two games on the trot, Guyana find themselves needing to win their third round clash in the Cricket West Indies Colonial Insurance Regional women’s Super50 against Leeward Islands today at the Enmore Community Centre ground.

A total of 4,917 cases of child abuse were recorded last year, while 495 have been reported for January 2019, a statement from the Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) has said, even as its Director, Ann Greene, called for journalists to confirm the validity of data before publishing.

Dear Editor, I note with considerable unhappiness that the Government is meeting with President Jimmy Carter’s Carter Center.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – The Nicaraguan government said yesterday it would release within 90 days all people arrested during several months of protests against President Daniel Ortega, as a step to restarting dialogue with opposition groups.

Nine families whose homes were devastated by fire, were on Tuesday offered assistance by the Guyana Relief Council (GRC).

The West Demerara Cricket Association in collaboration with title sponsors, Beacon Cafe has rolled out the inaugural 50-overs round robin tournament.

Dear Editor, On Tuesday March 19, 2019, the  Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority Mr.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc plans to sell several tons of gold placed as collateral by Venezuela’s central bank on a $1.6 billion loan after the deadline for repurchasing them expired this month, sources said, a setback for President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to hold onto the country’s fast-shrinking reserves.

(Trinidad Express) When Anita Espinoza heard she was on fire during her Caesarean section, she thought she was ­going to die.

Central Service upset Soft Drink Plant while Brewery edged Trisco when the Banks DIH Limited inter-department cricket competition  continued on Tuesday at Thirst Park.

Dear Editor, We, the public, will continue to read the pronouncements of the authorities with scepticism, snorts of derision, or even some good humour, depending on our mood, since they almost always display healthy measures of double standards or plain hypocrisy.

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC), will this year be opening a sub-office in Region 3 (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara), in order to decentralise land services.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Executives at Vale SA , the world’s largest iron ore miner, quashed efforts by Brazilian authorities to audit one of its mining dams months before it collapsed and killed over 300 people, a state prosecutor said, according to the news website G1.

Vikings upset Pepsi Sonics 74-69 in their second division matchup when the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association [GABA]/’Lets Bet Sports’ championship continued on Tuesday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Cricket West Indies president, Dave Cameron, says the regional governing body was forced to part ways with former coach Phil Simmons after concluding it had been “a bad decision” to hire the Trinidadian in the first place.

(Trinidad Express) President Donald Trump has invited the leaders of The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Saint Lucia to his Florida resort tomorrow to discuss Chinese “predatory economic practices” and the crisis in Venezuela.

A 24-year-old man who was accused of stealing a bottle of Hennessy, among other articles valued more than $300,000, was remanded to prison yesterday, after the magistrate expressed misgivings about him returning to court.

Dear Editor, It is now eight weeks since Dr Brian O’Toole was shot in the driveway of his home; ten days since I first wrote pointing out the lack of police action on this matter.

Dear Editor, The Ministry of Public Health in Guyana has stepped up its campaign to administer the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine to children in schools.

CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Former West Indies captain, Darren Sammy, says the Dave Cameron administration could not take credit for the region’s three World Cup titles in 2016, nor the recapture of the Wisden Trophy last month, as those successes were solely down to the hard work of the captains and management staff involved.

The Guyana Press Association (GPA) has publicly called on Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams to withdraw his comments and apologise for what it said was a “callous attack” on Stabroek News.

(Trinidad Express) While some people woke up Ash Wednesday still recovering from Carnival festivities on Monday and Tuesday, one Diego Martin family were organizing funeral arrangements.

OTTAWA/TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remained under pressure over a corruption scandal yesterday as a legislator quit his party’s caucus and a pre-election budget aimed at swaying key voters appeared to offer too little to stem the tide of negative news.

There are several things happening now in the world that can and will change the nature of education in the very near future.

(Barbados Nation) Sweet deals have come to an end. This is the promise of Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley who said Government was in the process of renegotiating public contracts which she described as expensive and untendered.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Amnesty International attacked the electric vehicle (EV) industry yesterday for selling itself as environmentally friendly while producing many of its batteries using polluting fossil fuels and unethically sourced minerals.

The Ides of March having passed six days ago, we are now into the Tides of March featuring the red wave of merriment as Guyana celebrates the annual Phagwah or Holi holiday.

Dear Editor, There is a myth being peddled in Guyana that “95% of the country’s wealth is owned by Indians”.