Daily Archive: Friday, July 19, 2019

(Jamaica Gleaner) A five-day search for 21-year-old Abina Bertram, also called Tashell, of Industry Hill in St Thomas, who was reported missing on Monday, ended today after her body was found in a river in the community of Nuttsriver.

(Trinidad Guardian) Wen­dell John, 42, may have been killed for “his mouth” as he was well known for throw­ing pi­cong and for be­ing very com­i­cal.

The Guyana Police Force today announced the appointment of Althea Padmore as the acting Head of the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU).

A New and United Guyana (ANUG) today denounced a decision by GECOM to proceed with house to house registration saying it was contemptuous of the edict of the Caribbean Court of Justice that elections be held within three months.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has announced the appointment of Alsion Roach Wilson as Jamaica’s new Consul General to New York.

Chartered Accountant and attorney Christopher Ram says he is boycotting GECOM’s planned house-to-house registration because it is unconstitutional and he is calling on fellow Guyanese of similar conviction to do likewise.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – South Africa’s anti-corruption watchdog said today that President Cyril Ramaphosa had “deliberately misled” parliament about a 500,000 rand ($35,900) donation he received for his 2017 election campaign for the leadership of the ruling ANC.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Portland man is in shock after the remains found last week were confirmed to be those of his 29-year-old niece, Andreen McDonald of a San Antonio, Texas, address in the United States.

(Trinidad Newsday) Hours after he was gunned down at his St Barb’s businessplace on Wednesday night, reputed gang member Dexter Joseph’s wife and his girlfriend were both taken to Port of Spain General Hospital after they went into labour at the same time.

(Jamaica Observer) Only 10 of the 24 alleged members of the One Don Gang who were busted officially appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday due to a lack of preparedness, which forced the presiding judge to retire to his “salubrious” chambers twice.

(Jamaica Observer) Although the woman who snatched his day-old baby from the Victoria Jubilee Hospital in January has pleaded guilty, Sinclair Hutton is not convinced she acted alone.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been warned against plans to begin a national house-to-house registration exercise, which its in-house lawyer says could be seen as contravening the judgment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the no-confidence motion against government.

Special Assistant at the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), Eric Phillips on Wednesday tendered his resignation after being officially informed that his private activities amounted to a “serious conflict of interest”, which, if ignored could have adverse effects on the organisation’s work.

Sean Singh was yesterday handed a 30-year prison sentence for the 2012 killing of his common-law wife, Indrawattie Sugrim, whom he knifed to death. 

A Guyanese man was allegedly fatally stabbed by his cousin at their worksite in Lake Street, Ithaca, New York yesterday morning.

BAGNERES-DE-BIGORRE, France (Reuters) – Simon Yates put a disappointing Giro d’Italia campaign behind him when he won the 12th stage of the Tour de France yesterday, as the main title contenders stayed quiet in the first Pyrenean climbs of this year’s race.

The Police Records Management Information System (PRMIS), which is expected to move the Guyana Police Force away from paper-based crime recording, was yesterday officially launched at the Guyana Police Force Training Centre, in Georgetown.

The Lady Jaguars will face-off with St Lucia in a top of the table clash in the CONCACAF Women’s U20 Championship at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora at 18:00hrs today.

The meeting scheduled for yesterday between teams representing  President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo was postponed, reportedly because Granger is still considering the four new names submitted on Wednesday for consideration for  Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – If Tiger Woods fans were hoping his Masters win in April marked a return to the days when he was a consistent threat at every major championship, then yesterday’s opening round of the British Open was a reality check.

A 20-year-old Guyana Defence Force rank was yesterday committed to stand trial for the alleged rape of an 11-year-old girl.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) – Arsenal fan websites in the United States are playing a pivotal role in a protest campaign against the club’s owners as a petition demanding change surpassed 100,000 signatures yesterday, three days after launching.

The National Cultural Centre tarmac will provide the ideal battleground when the group stage round in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Championship kicks-off with eight slated fixtures tonight.

The University of Guyana (UG) has joined the ranks of stations on the FM spectrum with the launching of its radio station ‘95.5 Intelligent FM’ yesterday.

A minibus conductor was yesterday committed to stand trial for the alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl in 2016.

MADRID (Reuters) – England right back Kieran Trippier said the lure of working with Diego Simeone, who he described as one of the top coaches around, convinced him to switch from Tottenham Hotspur to Atletico Madrid.

In keeping with the nation’s Green State Development Strategy, the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has commenced the distribution of energy efficient lights to 500 vulnerable households.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Ahmad Ahmad fired his deputy Amaju Pinnick yesterday just as global governing body FIFA was releasing details of a road map to put the crisis-hit organisation back on its feet.

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods endured miserable first rounds at the British Open yesterday with American J.B.

Guyana’s learning curve in the oil and gas sector is unlikely to be littered exclusively with pleasing revelations all of which have to do with the positive transformational effect that the industry promises to have on the welfare of the populace and the development of the country as a whole.

The Guyana Police Force and the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) have launched an investigation into the alleged attack on a pregnant woman and her children’s father on Wednesday night by ranks of the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost.

Very much with the 2017 10th place outcome for the Guyana team in the first ever Global Robotics Competition, the local STEM Guyana organization has announced that it is in the process of preparing two teams to participate in junior and senior international Robotics competitions in Dubai and South Korea later this year.

Grove Hi-Tech, Agricola Red Triangle and Mocha Champs secured wins when the East Bank Demerara zone in the GFF/NAMILCO Thunderbolt Flour Power U-17 League continued on Saturday.

An aunt of Presidential Guard Winston Cooper, who was found in an unconscious state on Man-dela Avenue with injuries to his head, believes he was attacked by a gang while on his way to work on July 1.

Former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) accountant, Peter Ramcharran, who is on 38 fraud charges at a city court, will begin facing trials in August and October in the courts of two city magistrates.

When 20-year-old Asha Christian tests and launches her mobile hair app, named Coily, here in Guyana on July 27th, 2019, that would not be her first venture of the kind.  

(Reuters) – Juventus announced the signing of Dutch teenager Matthijs de Ligt from Ajax Amsterdam yesterday, having secured one of the most sought-after young players in world soccer for 75 million euros ($84.25 million).

Measures are being put in place to address the shortage of water in communities on the West Bank of Demerara.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A group of rueful New Zealand players touched down on home soil yesterday, still coming to terms with the gut-wrenching defeat to England in the World Cup final.

If you think that the mango ranks at the very top of the list of the world’s most revered fruits then the available evidence suggests that you have a pretty strong case for so believing.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump tried to distance himself yesterday from supporters’ chants of “send her back” at a rally where he blasted Somalia-born U.S.

Even as progress in securing significant regional and extra-regional markets for locally manufactured agro- produce continues to move at a snail’s pace, the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has been enjoying a protracted run of ‘good form’ in its efforts to raise local awareness  of the range of products that have made their way onto the local market.

Liza Destiny, which will be  the  first oil production vessel to be located  in Guyana’s waters has left  Singapore, according to a release yesterday from ExxonMobil.

CAIRO (Reuters) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has rejected comments that the global soccer body has taken a “colonialist” attitude towards African football and its governing organisation CAF (Confederation of African Football).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday that a U.S.

Dear Editor, On July 12, 2019, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) ruled that the no-confidence motion of December 21, 2018, was successfully carried.

KYOTO, Japan,  (Reuters) – A man suspected of torching an animation studio in western Japan shouted that he had been plagiarised and appeared to have planned the attack, media said yesterday after a blaze that killed 33 people in Japan’s worst mass killing in two decades.

With most locally manufactured agro-produce still unable to break through the ‘glass ceiling’ that affords them uninhibited access to high-profile food outlets, the modest facilities of the Robb and Alexander streets, Guyana Shop, continue to be the critical local standard bearer for product promotion in the sector.

Machinery Corporation of Guyana (MACORP) is offering its world accredited online training programme, ‘Technicians for the Caribbean’ free of cost to Region 9 residents, especially the youths, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan marathoner Salome Jerono Biwott has been banned for eight years after being found guilty of committing a second doping violation, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said yesterday in another blow to Kenya’s sporting reputation.

Dear Editor, By the time this article is read, a week would have elapsed from the 12 July 2019, when the Caribbean Court of Justice delivered certain orders consequential to its decision rendered on 18 June 2019, in the No Confidence Motion cases and the challenge filed by Zulfikar Mustapha to the appointment of retired Justice James Patterson as Chairman of GECOM.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reducing its 2019 oil demand forecast due to a slowing global economy amid a U.S.-China

TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike yesterday defended the cost of hosting the 2020 Olympic Games, saying the Paralympics in particular would build a legacy by creating better accessibility for Japan’s rapidly aging society.

A 48-month sentence was on Wednesday handed to a man, who was one of the two persons charged with robbing the home of People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member Clement Rohee of over $3.5 million in jewellery and cash.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – FBI documents unsealed yesterday suggest that Donald Trump was actively involved in engineering a hush-money payment shortly before the 2016 election to a porn actress who said she had a sexual encounter with him, as his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, campaign team and others scrambled to head off a scandal.

A Rose Hall Town carpenter was yesterday afternoon admitted to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after he reportedly came into contact with an electrical wire and sustained a minor burn injury.

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(Reuters) – Zimbabwe were suspended from the International Cricket Council (ICC) yesterday, with the world governing body saying the country’s cricket administration was not free from government interference.

Dear Editor, Even in the best of times, it is not so good a time for law enforcement in this country. 

Introduction Following up on last week’s column we have set out below a Table summarizing the Profit and Loss Statement of Mid-Atlantic for each of the years 2013 (part-year) to 2018 extracted from the company’s audited financial statements lodged with the Commercial Registry, a statutory obligation under the Companies Act.

The new Guyana Marketing Corporation has agreed to provide us with the above information which we will publish on a weekly basis subject to receipt.

GASCI (www.gasci.com/telephone Nº 223-6175/6) reports that session 834’s trading results showed consideration of $4,381,125 from 20,310 shares traded in 17 transactions as compared to session 833’s trading results which showed consideration of $13,060,439 from 108,366 shares traded in 18 transactions.

A week last Friday, addressing the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Director of Economics at the Caribbean Development Bank Dr Justin Ram recommended that Guyana abolish its Grade Six Assessment.

Not by accident our editorial this week addresses the subject of agro processing.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British lawmakers yesterday approved proposals to make it harder for the next prime minister to force through a no-deal Brexit by suspending parliament, showing again their resolve to stop a divorce from the European Union without an agreement.

Dear Editor, I would like to express my deepest appreciation to the Police Officers who solved the murder case of Aaron Latchman and his teenage daughter Arian Latchman; the awards and recognition they received from the Guyana Police Force were well deserved.

I agree: Land for working-class Afros Hello friends, hello critics. My simple ageing mind wishes to simplify the advice implicit in my lead caption – non tribalist, observation, analysis, decision, hopefully a national objective decision regarding which political group you prefer in government beyond 2019.

(Reuters) – Sunrisers Hyderabad have hired England’s World Cup-winning coach Trevor Bayliss ahead of the 2020 season, the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has disregarded the Law Association’s advice to initiate an investigation into misconduct allegations against Chief Justice Ivor Archie.

Addressing a MERCOSUR meeting on Wednesday, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Karen Cummings, emphasized that the economic transformation underway here can see new and expanded partnerships with countries in Latin America. 

Do you pay attention to the state of your mind? We all can tend to get so lost in the humdrum of everyday existence that we neglect and suppress our mental state and emotions.