Daily Archive: Saturday, August 3, 2019

EL PASO, Tx., Aug 3 (Reuters) – A gunman armed with a rifle killed more than 15 people at a Walmart in El Paso on Saturday before being arrested, the Texas attorney general said, after the latest U.S.

For the avoidance of doubt, the People’s Progressive Party today said it wished to reiterate its position that its Members of Parliament will not return to the National Assembly, pursuant to Article 106(7) of the Constitution, to support any extension of time for the holding of General and Regional Elections.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday reiterated that it believes that there is a massive people smuggling racket and inaction by the government cannot be the order of the day.

(Trinidad Newsday) Atiba Jeremiah, 30, had already set a date for his wedding.

(Trinidad Guardian) The fam­i­lies of five mur­dered fish­er­men are call­ing on the po­lice to ar­rest and charge all of the peo­ple who were in­volved in the Ju­ly 22 pi­rate at­tack off Car­li Bay.

(Jamaica Observer) Macka Diamond is puzzled as to why American rapper Nicki Minaj has not posted her entry into the Megatron Challenge.

(Jamaica Observer) A man who embarked on a three-month killing spree in 2014 which claimed eight lives, has been sentenced to serve almost 800 months in prison before he becomes eligible for parole.

(Jamaica Observer) Several associations representing operators of public transportation have written to Prime Minister Andrew Holness, asking for a fare increase.

SRINAGAR, (Reuters) – Thousands of Indians have started leaving the disputed region of Kashmir after the local government issued a security alert related to possible militant attacks in the area, a senior government official said on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Re­pub­lic Bank Lim­it­ed has been hit with a tech­no­log­i­cal prob­lem that is af­fect­ing its cus­tomer trans­ac­tions, in­clud­ing mo­bile and In­ter­net bank­ing.

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has increased its field staff in order to complete the national house-to- house Registration (HtH) in three months.

Aside from the Constitution explicitly requiring that elections be held within three months of government’s collapse on the passage of a no-confidence motion, Senior Counsel Stanley Marcus says in the same vein, the supreme law also caters for that time to be extended.

The driver of a Route 42 (Georgetown – Timehri) minibus is now dead and 11 of his passengers are nursing injuries after they collided head on with a pick-up along with New Hope, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road early yesterday morning.

A 27-year-old mother of two succumbed at a city hospital on Wednesday morning, 11 days after she was struck down by a car while crossing the Chateau Margot, East Coast Deme-rara (ECD) Public Road.

A Tain Settlement motorcyclist died on Thursday evening after he collided with a hire car along the Clifton, Corentyne Public Road.

Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman on Wednesday announced planned salary increases for the staff of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC).

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC – Impressive fast bowler Chemar Holder struck twice late to pull West Indies A back into the contest but India A held the upper hand heading into today’s final day of the second four-day “Test”.

Workers from Guyana Goldfields Inc’s Aurora Gold Mine (AGM) are currently preparing letters to send to the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour and the company, giving them one month’s notice of a pending strike if the issues preventing them from being unionised are not sorted out as soon as possible.

(CWI) FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – Cricket West Indies interim selection panel has named Jason Mohammed as the replacement for Andre Russell in the first and second matches of the MyTeam11 Twenty20 International Series, co-sponsored by Skoda and Fena. Mohammed,

Government has been discussing reconvening sittings of the National Assembly, Vice Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Dr George Norton said yesterday.

Following what has become a customary fitness evaluation exercise on the heels of the off season, Cricket West Indies’ (CWI) Head of Sports Science and Sports Medicine, Dr Oba Gulston says he has seen an improvement in the fitness of the Guyanese players.

By the end of July, almost 400,000 ounces of gold had been declared for the year, which Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has said represents a “stead and pleasing upward trend” after a decline last year.

A 26-year-old bus conductor, who held an overseas visitor at knifepoint and robbed him of his phone, was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to armed robbery.

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) commissioned a Donation Box on July 31 to raise funds to develop the talents of less fortunate young players at the club’s Cricket Academy.

Haniff Peters, one of the persons accused of stealing more than $1 million from the Woodlands Hospital, was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail, while his accomplice, Susan Daniels, was handed a two-year suspended sentence after the court found them both guilty of the offence.

Dear Editor, The Haitians are coming. In droves. In an election year.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida,  CMC – Reigning world champions West Indies will seek to arrest a worrying trend when they clash with powerhouses India in the opening Twenty20 International of a three-match series here today.

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The head of Brazil’s space research agency INPE, Ricardo Galvao, is set to leave his job following a public dispute with President Jair Bolsonaro over deforestation statistics, a spokesperson for the science ministry said yesterday.

Dear Editor, I am forced to write this letter because of the fact that I am hurt, disappointed and bewildered at the actions of my employer, GuySuCo.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – It is easy to imagine England’s record-breaking bowler James Anderson walking around Dilip Jajodia’s cricket ball factory in London’s East End wearing the expression of a child in a toy shop.

Days after her fellow inmate Revelana Smith was sentenced to nine months in prison for unlawfully wounding her, the court ruled that Savita Persaud was merely defending herself against her attacker and dismissed the assault charge against her.

SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – The handpicked successor to disgraced Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello was sworn in yesterday after Rossello stepped down, but lawyer Pedro Pierluisi said his term as governor might be short as the island’s Senate still had to ratify his position.

Dear Editor, One cannot help perusing the The Conversation Tree  column in SN’s Sunday, as it contains, from time to time, some pertinent observations largely with respect to the political environment of the day.

BEIJING/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China yesterday vowed to fight back against U.S.

Kacey Chapman, one of three men jointly charged with illegal possession of guns and ammunition, was yesterday found guilty of the crime.

BIRMINGHAM, England,  (Reuters) – Rory Burns smashed an unbeaten maiden test century as England gained the upper hand in the first Ashes test by finishing day two on 267-4, trailing Australia by just 17 runs yesterday.

(Reuters) – Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has called for cricket to ditch its requirement for neutral umpires in the wake of a slew of poor decisions that blighted the opening day of the Ashes series.

Dear Editor, The apparent unending cycle of judicial encounters, vehement dialogue among the masses concerning the No Confidence Motion (NCM) and its consequences is having a new manifestation.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives now favour launching impeachment proceedings against Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump, after a California lawmaker yesterday became the 118th Democrat to call for the process to begin.

A fire, suspected to be electrical in origin, destroyed the one-storey wooden home of a Cliftom family yesterday morning.

OSLO/CARACAS  (Reuters) – The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition are continuing to hold talks in Barbados in an effort to find ways to resolve the Latin American country’s political crisis, the Foreign Ministry of mediator Norway said yesterday.

The police are seeking the assistance of the public to locate a 25-year-old man who is wanted in connection with the murder of Bartica resident Perion Nicholas Bobb, who was shot and killed more than three months ago.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Bangladesh should adopt a rotation policy to prolong the careers of their top players and unearth new talents, premier all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has said.

Dear Editor, And so it begins, the old political games of the past have once again reared their ugly head.

Dear Editor, There is a man on the roadway who is impersonating the police.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty in New York yesterday to charges that he ran a criminal scheme that recruited women and underage girls to have sex with him, isolating them and often controlling what they ate and when they went to the bathroom.

A father is hopeful that his son can recover and become fully responsive from injuries that he received on the morning just over two months ago.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton lapped fastest overall for Mercedes in Hungarian Grand Prix practice yesterday as rain limited meaningful track action in the afternoon.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court will hear arguments every day in an effort to resolve a decades-old dispute over what should be built on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said on Friday.

“The past is never dead,” wrote the American novelist William Faulkner, “It’s not even past.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Two se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers with decades of ser­vice, ap­peared in the Ch­agua­nas Mag­is­trates Court yester­day morn­ing charged with sex­u­al mis­con­duct.

Dear Editor,    Guyana still has to contend with the phenomenon of our Government’s signing away billions of dollars in income taxes to some of the world’s wealthiest corporations, and agreeing to foot their income tax bill for them.  Based

In a mid-film sequence in “Hobbs and Shaw,” the new “Fast & Furious” spinoff, one of the heroes tries to talk the villain out of his plan to destroy the world.

Years ago, on Emancipation Day, an elder called me in London from Cameroon and greeted me with song.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Cristiano Ronaldo may not be the most popular footballer in South Korea at the moment but he has an ardent fan in India cricket captain Virat Kohli, who changes his club allegiance every time the Portuguese forward is transferred.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday issued wanted bulletins for three men who are accused of rape in separate attacks in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice).