Daily Archive: Monday, July 29, 2019

(Trinidad Express) Three teenagers from the St. Judes Home for Girls in Belmont are now warded at hospital after they broke into a room with medical supplies at the facility and ingested drugs to get high.

(Barbados Nation) Police are on the hunt for a man who barged into a house, choked a woman, doused her with a flammable substance and then set the house on fire yesterday.

New Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice (rtd) Claudette Singh (fourth from right) posed for a photo today with members of the commission.

The Police say they are investigating the murder of Kurt Anthony Duncan, 32,  of  Sophia, Greater Georgetown which occurred at Seeta’s Bar on Station Street, Kitty today at around 2 am.

Justice Claudette Singh was today sworn in as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission.

GILROY, Calif., (Reuters) – Police were searching today for a suspected accomplice of the gunman who killed three people, including a 6-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at a food festival in California.

(Trinidad Newsday) The day after he was killed in a shootout with police, Akanni “Dole” Adams was scheduled to meet with his attorney to discuss taking legal action against the State for what he considered harassment.

(Jamaica Observer) Bounty Killer is taking a stand against mining in the Cockpit Country.

(Trinidad Guardian) With just three days to go be­fore a spe­cial sit­ting of Par­lia­ment to de­bate the Bail Amend­ment bill, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is lev­el­ling crit­i­cism in the di­rec­tion of the Ju­di­cia­ry and the op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two teen broth­ers and a pen­sion­er were ar­rest­ed at their re­spec­tive homes in Mar­aval on Sat­ur­day morn­ing for drug pos­ses­sion.

The national men’s 7s rugby team finished their Pan American Games campaign yesterday in Lima, Peru with a 24-nil loss to Uruguay, a reminder of how their forgettable tournament unfolded.

PARIS, (Reuters) – Egan Bernal became the first Colombian to win the Tour de France when he retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey after yesterday’s 21st and final stage won by Caleb Ewan of Australia.

A tropical storm in St. Vincent and the Grenadines has forced the abandonment of the first round of the Cricket West Indies “Rising Stars” Regional Under-19 tournament.

Vice-President of the Guyana Tennis Association (GTA), Cristy Campbell and Junior Coach, Andre Erskine have sounded an urgent call for the installation of floodlights at public tennis courts and rehabilitation works.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned 18 operations that they face closure for failing to adhere to requirements.

HOCKENHEIM, Germany, (Reuters) – Max Verstappen made five pitstops, spun and then won a crazy German Grand Prix yesterday while Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton had a nightmare afternoon but still stretched his overall lead to 41 points.

LA Ballers, Dave & Celina All-Stars, Haynes Hitters, High Rollers and Silver Bullets recorded contrasting wins, when the 6th edition of the New Era Entertainment/Mohamed’s Enterprise Futsal Tournament continued on Saturday.

Fly Jamaica airlines has new owners and they have promised to address ticket refunds and the company’s current debt among other issues, even as plans are on stream to resume operations in Jamaica from September, the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) reported yesterday.

Guyana’s contract with oil major ExxonMobil is a good one but some of the provisions are “shady” and the signing bonus and royalty were too low, says Dr Tulsi Dyal Singh, a Midland, Texas-based small oil and gas investor who has been involved in various aspects of the industry.

President of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Roger Harper delivered a rousing charge to five of the club’s juniors who were selected to represent Guyana at the 2019 Cricket West Indies (CWI) Regional Under-19 Championship in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – West Indies T20 captain Carlos Brathwaite is expecting a stern challenge from India when the two sides meet in the US for their upcoming Twenty20 series.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalised yesterday after suffering an acute allergic reaction which one doctor said may have been the result of him being poisoned with an unknown chemical substance.

There is a need to address the cause of sexual violence in Guyana and particularly the growing incidence involving female children.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Chinese state media said yesterday the United States has shipped several million tonnes of soybeans to China since the two countries’ leaders met in June, although U.S.

BRAMPTON, Canada,  CMC – The Trinidadian duo of Rayad Emrit and Dwayne Bravo both produced solid performances as their Winnipeg Hawks rebounded from defeat to trounce the Vancouver Knights by eight wickets here yesterday.

It is the President who fixes the date for general elections and given the current mindset of President David Granger there is a risk that he could refuse to dissolve parliament and set a date, according to former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran.

Dear Editor, I was pleased to see the recent Stabroek News editorial published on the country’s foreign policy and more specifically its plea for higher priority to be given to economic diplomacy.

GWANGJU, South Korea,  (Reuters) – If the world swimming championships in Gwangju were just a taste of what is to come at the 2020 Olympics, then in the words of recently retired Australian sprinter James Magnussen — “Brace yourselves”.

Several breaches along the porous Mahaicony sea defence were recently sealed but farmers say they remain fearful that the repairs would not hold up against spring tides and new breaches might develop due to the rapid erosion occurring.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday said disparaging comments he made about a prominent African-American lawmaker and his Baltimore district were not racist and, without citing any evidence for his claim, he called the congressman a racist.

Dear Editor, On Saturday July 27th, 2019, the media reported on a real time facial recognition and facial tracking system to be deployed for 24 hours surveillance in Georgetown and East Bank of Demerara.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – The Singapore prime minister’s estranged brother has thrown his support behind a newly-formed opposition party in an intriguing twist ahead of elections expected to be held as soon as this year.

Dear Editor, The Carter Center Report entitled “Observing Guyana’s Electoral Process, 1990-1992” and published on its website is extremely important and instructive as the debate and battle over the house to house registration exercise rages.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has welcomed the appointment of Justice Claudette Singh as the new chairperson of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) and has called on the political forces to tone down the political pressure and allow GECOM to do its work.

(ESPN) Sri Lanka yesterday romped to a seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh to go 2-0 up and claim a series win with one game left to play.

DES MOINES, Iowa  (Reuters) – Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad smashed one of athletics’ oldest world records when she stormed to the women’s 400 metres hurdles title in 52.20 seconds at the United States championships in Iowa yesterday.

Dear Editor,  As an earnest tax paying citizen of Georgetown, can the Council inform us when the current Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown will embark upon correcting the wrongs and repairing the extensive damage that was willfully done to our capital city by a former senior administrative municipal staffer? 

SACRAMENTO,  (Reuters) – Police and ambulances raced to a shooting at a food festival in California last night, and video posted on social media showed people at the event running for cover as shots rang out.

Police in Essequibo on Saturday discovered a quantity of gun parts buried on a farm in Adventure, Essequibo Coast.

Two unlicensed firearms were unearthed during a search by police at a mining camp in the Waimu Backdam, Cuyuni River and six persons have been detained.

By Yarimar Bonilla Yarimar Bonilla is a founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus project and co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm.

Dear Editor, I would like to know why it is so difficult if not impossible for the Georgetown Municipality to get its financial systems in order.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – The rebranding of the West Indies Under-19 championship to the “Rising Stars” Under-19 championship is an indication of Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) continued commitment to the development of its junior players.

  SAN JUAN,  (Reuters) – The woman in line to be the governor of Puerto Rico after Ricardo Rosselló steps down next week said yesterday she does not want the job running the U.S.

On Thursday President David Granger invited members of civil society and the diplomatic community to listen to a presentation at separate engagements in the Baridi Benab.

One in four people in Africa, or approximately 130 million people, pay bribes to access services, such as health care and education, according to the tenth edition of Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Africa.