Daily Archive: Monday, May 13, 2019

(Jamaica Gleaner) The May Pen High School is now in mourning following the murder of 17-year-old Stefica Smith.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A total of 10,626 Jamaicans overstayed their United States (US) non-immigrant tourism/business (B1/B2) visas between October 1, 2017, and September 30, 2018, the US Department of Homeland Security has reported.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Antonio Dos Santos, 21, of Lot 22 second Avenue, Bartica which occurred in front of an entertainment bar at First Avenue, Bartica yesterday; allegedly by a 29 year carpenter of First Avenue, Bartica who is currently being sought.

(Trinidad Express) A knife was pulled and a woman stabbed after a crash on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway near Aranguez on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman who led her 16-year-old-boyfriend to his death as she wore a see-through dress has been re­leased from prison af­ter 10 years and de­port­ed from the coun­try.

(Reuters) – Actress Doris Day, who became one of the greatest box-office attractions of her time as the cheery, freckle-faced personification of wholesomeness, died today at the age of 97, her foundation said on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) A woman and a man are dead following a motor vehicular accident along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway yesterday morning.

(Jamaica Observer) One man has been hospitalised following an early morning robbery attempt at Andrew Memorial United church in Mandeville, Jamaica yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) The Ganja Growers Producers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) says it is strongly opposed to the Government’s embrace of hemp cultivation here and has made a number of demands designed to protect the local cannabis industry from what the group sees as a threat.

(Trinidad Express)  A San Fernando man was gunned down while sitting in his car with his girlfriend in Ste Madeleine on Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO,  (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Jasprit Bumrah’s death-overs mastery in yesterday’s Indian Premier League (IPL) final has convinced batting great Sachin Tendulkar that the 25-year-old with an unorthodox action is currently the best bowler in world cricket.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Had Antonette Bernard heeded the warnings of the police to leave a community drink-up in York Town, Clarendon, on Saturday night, she might have lived to enjoy Mother’s Day with her daughters yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) The police are reporting that a woman was killed along the Dunn’s River main road in St Ann yesterday after a tree branch fell on the vehicle in which she was travelling.

(IPL) In a match befitting a tournament final, the Mumbai Indians defeated the Chennai Super Kings by the slimmest of margins – by one run – to be crowned champions of VIVO IPL 2019.

The Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship will crown a new champion after defending champions Silver Bullets lost to High Rollers in the semi-final stage Saturday at the Mackenzie Market Tarmac.

As the 29th Annual Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) Awards ceremony draws closer to its May 19 date, Jacobs’ Jewellery and Kings Jewellery have thrown their support behind the event while the National Sports Commission (NSC) has injected a significant sum into the body’s Say No/Yes programme.

Guyana’s green energy transformation could be realised if it doesn’t buckle to pressure for downstream investments in oil here and the country should instead focus on diversification, Chatham House fellow and oil consultant Valerie Marcel told Thursday’s Houston, Texas petroleum summit.

In addition to the preparation of more civil recovery proceedings in relation to the lands allocated at `Pradoville 2’ under the previous PPP/C administration, the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) is currently preparing two other land sale matters which have a combined value of close to $1 billion.

National Chess Champion, Wendell Meusa, has opted not to participate in upcoming chess tournaments including the Guyana National Open Championship based on the illegality of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) while its President, James Bond, says an Elections Committee has been installed to deal with the issue.

Two armed bandits on Saturday evening robbed the proprietors of a Chinese supermarket, located a stone’s throw away from the Albion Police Station, of $250,000 in cash and one iPhone, before escaping.

A number of the nation’s premier junior squash players will swing into action later this evening when the 2019 Woodpecker Products Junior National Squash tournament gets underway at the Georgetown Club Squash Court from 18:00hrs. 

An inquest has been ordered into the death of 15-year-old Karamchand Khemraj, who was killed in a hit-and-run involving a white Toyota ‘Pitbull’ minibus on the Annandale, East Coast Demerara (ECD) public road in December last year.

CJ McCollum scored 37 points, including a fadeaway jumper with 11.4 seconds left, and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied to beat the host Denver Nuggets 100-96 in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals yesterday.

Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry will at 9 am on Thursday commence hearing the application made by Dipcon for Finance Minister Winston Jordan to be jailed for his failure to pay the US$2,228,400 awarded to the company in 2015.

Tiger Bay, Back Circle, Future Stars, Sparta Boss and Bent Street were among the winning teams when the Corona Beer Futsal Championships continued on Saturday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

GFF Elite League champion Fruta Conquerors maintained their perfect tournament record, defeating Den Amstel 3-0 yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force do not have the right to refuse to take reports from victims regardless of the jurisdiction where the incident occurred and those who are found guilty of such action will be disciplined.

The Dallas Mavericks are investigating an altercation involving Kristaps Porzingis this weekend in his native Latvia that left the All-Star bleeding above his right eye.

Dear Editor, The International Association for Suicide Prevention’s (IASP) Third Caribbean Regional Symposium on Suicide was held in Trinidad & Tobago from May 2 to 4.

DUBLIN, Ireland, CMC – After scoring his maiden One Day International century, Sunil Ambris is hoping to remain on the minds of West Indies selectors going forward.

The Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GY-EITI) report has recommended that confidentiality restrictions be amended to enable the comprehensive recording of revenues from the extractive industries.

On Saturday,  24 pharmacists recited the pharmacist’s oath after donning their white coats and being awarded their licences to practise.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan general called on the country’s armed forces yesterday to rise up against President Nicolas Maduro, who has relied on the backing of the military to hold on to power despite an economic collapse.

An advocate in the fight against  breast cancer and a motivational speaker, 32-year-old Devika Tinsarran lost her battle last evening three years after being diagnosed. 

Dear Editor, As the days pass, and the advocates and adversaries labour before the regional consuls of the law, all Guyanese should feel a deep sense of shame and pain. 

LIVERPOOL, England,  (Reuters) – Manchester City retained their Premier League crown yesterday, pipping Liverpool to the title by a single point, but while the remarkable numbers of this campaign tell their own story this season was about much more than just consistent point accumulation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – When he ran for president in 2016, Donald Trump delighted crowds with his harsh rhetoric on China.

(Trinidad Guardian) Coun­ter­feit con­doms are be­ing sold in T&T, one of the pop­u­lar brands avail­able lo­cal­ly has warned, say­ing that the sit­u­a­tion pos­es a threat to pub­lic health.

The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) is awaiting additional information it requested from PPP executive member Gail Teixeira regarding the complaint she lodged over a year ago about government’s handling of the controversial US$18 million signing bonus it received from ExxonMobil and its partners.

Dear Editor, I have noticed that Ruel Johnson has decided to use his Facebook page to respond to my letter on the President’s approach to corruption in his government which appeared in SN of May 12, 2019 `Not even the President appears to be aware of normalization of corruption, incompetence’.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton hailed history in the making in Spain yesterday as his Mercedes team celebrated the best-ever start to a season with a fifth one-two finish in as many races.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rachael Sukhdeo’s Moth­er’s Day got off to a rough start yes­ter­day as she had to run for her life to es­cape a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in which she is be­lieved to have been the tar­get.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democrats are reluctant to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump, but he may provoke such a move by continuing to obstruct Congress’ efforts to oversee his administration, a senior Democratic lawmaker said yesterday.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Spanish champions Barcelona beat top-four chasing Getafe 2-0 in front of a subdued and near half-empty Nou Camp yesterday in their first Liga game since a humbling defeat by Liverpool sent them crashing out of the Champions League semi-finals.

The Audit Office of Guyana is currently awaiting the submission of additional information from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) to complete the audit of the spending associated with the controversial D’Urban Park project.

Dear Editor, For three days in May, lawyers representing the APNU+AFC administration and the PPP appeared in the Caribbean Court of Justice, the views expressed and arguments ventilated were instructive not only in relation to the cases under appeal but for the revelations of the differing underpinning philosophies that guide the actions of the parties.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentine lawmaker Hector Olivares died  yesterday after he was shot in what authorities called a “mafia-style” attack outside Congress in downtown Buenos Aires on Thursday, according to state-run news agency Telam.

(Barbados Nation) Harold Hoyte has passed away. Hoyte, one of the founders of The Nation Publishing Co, passed away around 11:30 a.m.

Dear Editor, While the APNU+AFC Government tries to brag that it has achieved a lot in its four-year tenure its bragging lacks credible substance.

Business process outsourcing (BPO) company, Qualfon won two awards last week at the Caribbean Export Development Agency biennial conference in Curacao.

Encouraging women to take up roles in Information technology (IT), is one key way to bridge the gender gap disparity, according to Inter-American Development Bank country representative, Sophie Makonnen.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka’s west coast yesterday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters.

(Trinidad Guardian) Hu­bert Bhag­wans­ingh, the founder and chair­man of the Bhag­wans­ingh’s Group of Com­pa­nies, has died.

Last week, we examined the 2017 Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (GYEITI) Report which was published last month.

This week, residents of Port Kaituma, Region 1 were asked about the issues affecting them the most and developments they would like to see take place.

Dear Editor, As a Christian, my mission is to do everything I can to live out these Scriptures as a lifestyle and to challenge others in the body of Christ, the citizenry and the Guyana Police Force, the Government of Guyana to put them into practice as well. 

Guyana’s dismal campaign in the CONCACAF U17 Football Championship has once again called into question the direction of the nation’s youth programme, effectively placing the proverbial microscope on the entity’s developmental department.

The May 9th edition of Stabroek News reflected the continuing grave challenges that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) faces in relation to the lawful conduct of its members.

By Medino Felician Abraham SJ and Joel Thompson SJ Medino Felician Abraham SJ works in South Rupununi and holds an MSc in Society and Frontier from the Federal University, Roraima Brazil.